Re: [evolution-patches] Proposed UI change: mailer component: ellipsis characters for various menu items (#323951)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

[...]
> > According to the recent discussion on IRC, a lot of hackers agree with
> > me here. [1] Adding ellipsis all over the place, to almost all menu
> > entries is the wrong way and pretty counter productive. The user will
> > miss its meaning entirely.
> > 
> > There are a few good places, where this actually is useful: "Save" vs.
> > "Save As..." for example. "Reply..." is not.
> 
> As per the irc discussion, i have reverted the patch and created a bug
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324492 for discussing ellipsis
> on required menu items.

Thanks, Srini. :-)

Yeah, that was quite some discussion on IRC... :)


> David, i have reverted the patch, let us close on the menus that need
> ellipsis, and finally take all the patches. There were a lot of
> discussion on HIG's words on ellipsis. So we decided that let we not do
> anything and close on this asap and get the ellipsis on required menu
> items where ever needed. Please add yourselves to the bug, to put down
> your points.


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