Re: gnome-libs patch

[epg pobox com (Eric Gillespie Jr.)]

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:35:23AM -0600,
John R. Sheets <dusk@ravendusk.org> wrote:
> Hmmm, I believe the ellipses indicate an interactive action, and not
> whether or not the user will have to input anything.  Without the
> ellipses, a menu item should invoke its action immediately.  The
> ellipses imply further interaction, which typically means a dialog box.

This is from devel-docs/suggestions.txt, from the gnome-libs source
distribution:

   - Ellipsis ("...") should be used on menu items that require the
     application to prompt the user for extra information before the
     command can execute.  "Save as..." is one of these because the
     application needs to ask the user for the filename.  "About" is
     not because the command *is* to pop up an about box, and it does
     not need to prompt for information before doing that.

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