Re: Word-a-Day: cancel, stop

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists googlemail com>]

There are quite a few words that are related to terminating a program.

http://wiki.arabeyes.org/techdict:Abort

"Abort  : Close  : Quit  : Exit  : Kill  : Terminate  : End  : Finish : Cancel"


Djihed

2008/8/6 Matteo Settenvini <matteo-ml member fsf org>:
> There's a third word that suggests termination of a task: "abort".
> Is it the same of "stop", or do we assume it is something
> that happens a lot more abruptly?
>
> I think that "abort" is mostly for unwanted effects, and thus should
> never be used in e.g. clickable UI buttons.
>
> Cheers,
> Matteo
>
> On mer, 2008-08-06 at 14:28 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
>> ============================================================
>> cancel
>> End an operation without leaving any side effects.  Only use
>> "cancel" if the operation can be ended cleanly, leaving the
>> system in the same state as before the operation was started.
>> Use "stop" instead if ending the operation will result in
>> partial effects of the operation remaining.
>> ============================================================
>> stop
>> End an operation leaving some side effects.  Use stop if the
>> operation cannot be ended cleanly, or if ending the operation
>> will leave it partially completed.  Use "cancel" instead if
>> the operation can be ended cleanly with no side effects.
>> ============================================================
>>
>> We don't currently have recommendations for these in the
>> Style Guide, but this jives with the HIG's recommendation:
>>
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/feedback-interrupting.html.en
>>
>> Suggestions on better wording are welcome.
>>
>> --
>> Shaun
>>
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