On Mon, 1 May 2006, Bill Wohler wrote: > Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:39:11 -0700 > From: Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Re: New UI for gnome-about-me capplet > > Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The Gnome Guidelines do includes capitalisation rules but I'm not sure > > they are exactly the same but since Sun Microsystems helped write a lot of > > the documentation there is a good chance they are. > > Not even close in this regard. Compare: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/HIG.Visual3.html#78052 > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-text-labels.html#layout-capitalization
> If it's true that Sun helped to write the GNOME guidelines, it is > strange that the Java guidelines are so different in this regard. I > wonder why that is? Sun helped but I expect the standards were written to reflect what was already there rather than trying to force Gnome to conform to Sun standards. > > Not sure I entirely trust those Java guidelines, the manage to mispell > > centimetres and they use an unnecessary abbreviatoin "don't" :P > > It's not just the Java guidelines, Americans haven't spoken English in > years. Is "abbreviatoin" the Irish spelling of "abbreviation?" ;-). (Centimetre is French anyway. Maybe that explains why America still hasn't gone metric?) Now it all makes sense. Clear as mud. -- Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
