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Bug 119249 - does tooltips end with a full stop ?
does tooltips end with a full stop ?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-06 10:44 UTC by Fabrice Alphonso
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Fabrice Alphonso 2003-08-06 10:44:05 UTC 
Could it be explicitely written in the HIG section "Desktop Integration"
subsection "Menu Item and Tooltips" (or wherever it talks about tooltips
and that could be better place) the policy to follow about tooltip's end,
with or without a "." (final dot)?
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2003-09-19 12:50:46 UTC 
I guess a couple of words don't need a full stop, because they are not
a sentence. A sentence should end with a full stop. Personally, I
don't think it needs to be said, unless there is a great deal of
inconsistency at the moment.
Comment 2 Seth Nickell 2003-09-21 05:04:23 UTC 
I agree that this may be unimportant enough to not specify. I would
generally say that you shouldn't include a period for Application Menu
items. They should be short verb driven sentences, but I think a
period just gets in the way.
Comment 3 Seth Nickell 2003-09-21 05:05:13 UTC 
Closing bug.