Re: Tooltips, Labels, and the Dots

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 5/26/00 9:57 PM, Karl Eichwalder at ke@gnu.franken.de wrote:

> It looks as a minor issue but it needs clarifying nevertheless:
> 
> I'd like to see _all_ tooltips "closed" by a full stop.
> 
> I'm now sure whether we should do the same for labels of check
> boxes.  sawfish has dots (cf. sawfish-capplet) and it looks pretty
> good to me.

That should depend on the phrasing. If the tooltip is a complete sentence,
it should end with a period. If it is a noun phrase, it shouldn't. Perhaps
you're arguing that all tooltips and check boxes should contain complete
sentences?

John