Julien Gilli wrote:
Hello,
Marco Menardi a écrit :
The general User Interface guidelines imposes that if a menu item does
not directly what it tells, it should end with "...".
I think that the rationale so far behind the addition of "..." in a menu
entry has been that it opens a web browser. Is your suggestion a
freedesktop guideline, or anything that would be quite common across
GNU/Linux desktop for example ?
You can see that every UI follows this basic guidelines (Windows, Gnome,
Kde, Acqua, etc..)
For instance (Apple):
"Using the Ellipsis Character" in
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGText/chapter_13_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000365-TPXREF126
or in (KDE)
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+Pseudo-HIG#id710645
search for Ellipsis and you find:
"Notice that every item in a menu that first opens a dialog requiring
additional information must be labelled with a trailing ellipsis (...)
(e.g. Save As..., Open...). There's no space between the menu item and
the "...". A simple confirmation dialog is not considered a dialog that
requires additional information."
or (Gnome)
http://interface.free.fr/Archives/hig-gnome-1.0.pdf
under "3.2.1. Command Items" you find:
"Label the menu item with a trailing ellipsis ("...") only if the
command requires further input from the user before it can be performed.
Do not add an ellipsis to items that only present a confirmation dialog
(such as Delete), or that do not require further input (such as
Properties, Preferences or About)."
Different items naming suggestion
Menu:
Wengo
- Make call
+ Call |or| VoIP Call
- Send SMS
+ SMS (you will add then subitems)
- Start chat
+ Chat (you will add then subitems)
This is a very good suggestion. After some thinking on our side, we feel
that the following proposal would be better :
- Leave "Send SMS" as a top menu entry
- Rename "Send SMS" in the submenu entry with "Other Number"
- Move "Other Number" at the bottom of the list
As for "Make Call", we thought that moving the "Compose" submenu entry
at the bottom of the list would be better too.
We think that it is the less costly and the most coherent change that we
could make.
What do you think about that ? The ticket #256 has been created
accordingly, please feel free to comment it.
mmm I'm not sure I've understood, could you draw here that structure?
Send SMS -> Other Number ?
please write here the planned structure, if you can, would be easier for
me to understand
All the best and thank you very much for your suggestions,
Thanks a lot for your work in developing this important GPL software :)
regards
Marco
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