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Bug 335662 - Buttons: use proper labels
Buttons: use proper labels
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-23 12:39 UTC by Joachim Noreiko
Modified: 2021-07-05 10:53 UTC
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Description Joachim Noreiko 2006-03-23 12:39:55 UTC 
The HIG should recommend against buttons without proper labels. 

For example, a browse button with only an ellipsis '...' should be avoided: this is hard to describe in documentation.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2014-09-26 08:55:06 UTC 
I would have thought that this is pretty obvious. Are there repeated examples of this where guidelines would help?
Comment 2 Lasse Schuirmann 2014-12-18 07:25:04 UTC 
IMO this bug is covered by https://developer.gnome.org/hig/3.14/writing-style.html although it does not explicitly warn about bad examples.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 10:53:32 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of  gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

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