[gnome-devel-docs] hig: clarify ellipsis usage
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-devel-docs] hig: clarify ellipsis usage
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:06:00 +0000 (UTC)
commit fe75710216a200788fc2186efde1317f38da310f
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Wed Jan 14 12:04:36 2015 +0000
hig: clarify ellipsis usage
See
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/docs-feedback/2015-January/msg00007.html
for more details of the issue.
hig/C/writing-style.page | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/hig/C/writing-style.page b/hig/C/writing-style.page
index fa0b673..4e45fe5 100644
--- a/hig/C/writing-style.page
+++ b/hig/C/writing-style.page
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic"
id="writing-style">
<info>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.15" date="2015-01-14" status="review"/>
+
<credit type="author">
<name>Allan Day</name>
- <email>aday gnome org</email>
+ <email its:translate="no">aday gnome org</email>
</credit>
<credit>
<name>Calum Benson</name>
@@ -19,8 +22,16 @@
<credit>
<name>Colin Robertson</name>
</credit>
+ <credit type="editor">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+ <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
+ <years>2015</years>
+ </credit>
+
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
<desc>Writing text for your user interface, including capitalization rules.</desc>
+
</info>
<title>Writing style</title>
@@ -85,9 +96,15 @@
<section id="ellipses">
<title>Ellipses (…)</title>
-<p>Use an ellipsis (…) at the end of a label if the action requires further input from the user before it
can be carried out. For example, <gui>Save As…</gui>, <gui>Find…</gui> or <gui>Rename…</gui>.</p>
+ <p>Use an ellipsis (…) at the end of a label if further input or confirmation
+ is required from the user before the action can be carried out. For example,
+ <gui>Save As…</gui>, <gui>Find…</gui> or <gui>Delete…</gui>.</p>
-<p>Do not add an ellipsis to commands like <gui>Properties</gui> or <gui>Preferences</gui>. While these
commands open windows that can incorporate further functionality, the label does not specify a particular
action, and therefore does not need to communicate that further input is required.</p>
+ <p>Do not add an ellipsis to labels such as <gui>Properties</gui> or
+ <gui>Preferences</gui>. While these commands open windows that can
+ incorporate further functionality, the label does not specify an action, and
+ therefore does not need to communicate that further input or confirmation is
+ required.</p>
</section>
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