Re: Menu names
- From: Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>
- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub aphid net>
- Cc: George <jirka 5z com>, kenneth gnu org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: Menu names
- Date: 22 Feb 2001 13:42:48 +0100
Jeff Waugh <jdub aphid net> writes:
> Kenneth - I think you're quite right about tidying up some of our little
> GNOMEisms. :)
>
> <quote who="George">
>
> > Why not give the type of application in parenthesis as in:
> >
> > gedit (Text Editor)
> > GIMP (Image Manipulation Program)
> > gfrobate (Frobation Device Controller)
George, you've my vote. Not only "newbies" are using GNOME -- I'd
appreciate it a lot to see filenames in menu entries! (Yes, I know, I
can query the properties using the mouse, etc. ...)
> This is probably a little unclear.
No :)
> Is there any possibility of using the comment field as a tooltip for these
> menu items, or are we *way* too late? (I'd say yes, it's probably something
> to consider for a future release.)
>
> It would be great to mouse over "Text Editor" and see "gedit - A simple text
> editor". Less clutter, very direct, using infrastructure that's already
> there.
You're right, too. We've to try to get both things right.
Menu entry:
filename (short generic name = class of the program?)
Tooltip:
filename - comment, 1-3 lines, nice to read.
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