GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 335112
Errors in use of ellipsis (...) in menu items
Last modified: 2008-05-09 16:11:38 UTC
Version 2.12.1, Ubuntu 5.10 Three Nautilus menu items do not follow the HIG guidelines on using ellipses <http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-design.html#menu-item-type-command>. * "Stretch Icon..." does not have an ellipsis and should. The usual goal when selecting this item is stretching the icon, and that does not happen without further input. * "Share [F]older..." does not have an ellipsis and should. The usual goal when selecting this item is sharing the folder, and that does not happen without further input. * "Edit Bookmarks..." does not have an ellipsis and should. The usual goal when selecting this item is changing the bookmarks in some way, and that does not happen without further input.
Thanks for your bug report! Your proposals sound reasonable, this is still an issue with Nautilus 2.14, milestoning to 2.16.
Regarding "Select Pattern", you also pointed out > * The menu item should end with an ellipsis, because the usual > intended task (selecting some items) requires more input. > > * "Select Pattern" is unhelpful. It's not for selecting a pattern, > it's for selecting items that match a pattern. Perhaps "Select > Items Matching…" on usability list. Alex is on vacation, and tomorrow we'll be string frozen for Nautilus 2.16 :/.
Created attachment 72051 [details] [review] patch for the above problems This patch fixes the above problems apart from share folder which is in a different package I believe.
Please remember to notify the docs team when this is applied (either reassign this bug, or file a new one). (Oh yeah, and *bump* ;)
Created attachment 110645 [details] [review] updated patch I updated the patch to apply to trunk, I think we should commit this now, before any kind of 2.23 freeze.
Committed, closing as FIXED. 2008-05-09 Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org> * src/file-manager/fm-directory-view.c: (select_pattern): * src/file-manager/fm-icon-view.c: * src/nautilus-navigation-window-menus.c: * src/nautilus-spatial-window.c: Ellipsize and HIG-ify some menu items. (#335112).