GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 133782
Use HIG recommendation for ellipses in context menus
Last modified: 2005-08-15 01:42:21 UTC
Currently, most (all?) the applets don't adhere to the HIG's recommendation for ellipsizing menu entries in their context menus: they all have: "Preferences..." "About..." The HIG link for ellipsizing: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/menus-design.html#menu-item-types "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)."
Created attachment 24211 [details] [review] Patch that removes extraneous ellipses
Quick off the mark with the patch! Can this make tonight's string freeze?
This should get in, can i still submit it on time or should we go through the release team ?, the faster the better.
Hmm, it seems like it was usability people who originally approved the ellipsation of the menus ;) Someone will have to email for permission from gnome-i18n list and release team. It would be nice to also get a usability person to confirm this is what we want.
I have no experience with neither the i18n or usability team. Could someone who has contact them ?
Adding <mailto:usability-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org> to the CC list at the request of Bryan Clark and moving priority to high.
Created attachment 24334 [details] [review] Here is the patch for the applets in the gnome-panel module.
Created attachment 24335 [details] [review] Here is the patch for the gdict applet in the gnome-utils module.
Created attachment 24336 [details] [review] Here is the patch for the gnome-netstatus module.
String changes should go in after branching.
Ok i want to get this in, shall we procceed as following: Submit the patch for gnome-applets fill bugs for the other components and ask the maintainer to merge the patch for theirs as well ?
Yes, this sounds like a good plan, it'd be great to get this one done.
Submitted to gnome-applets, thanks a lot for the patch: Not closing yet because of the other patches. ___ 2004-06-11 Dennis Smit <ds@nerds-incorporated.org> Removed ellipses in context menus. Based on the patch by: Alexander Winston <alexander.winston@comcast.net> Fixes bug: #133782.
I will be filling bugs in the netstatus and panel components for the other two patches. ___ 2004-06-11 Dennis Smit <ds@nerds-incorporated.org> * GNOME_GDictApplet.xml: Remove from ellipsizing per HIG. Fixes gnome-utils part of bug #133782. Patch by: Dennis Cranston <dennis_cranston at yahoo com>
Bugs filled for the netstatus applet and panel: Panel: #144130 Netstatus: #144131
Cheers, everything is in! Thanks a lot Dennis and Alexander!