Re: gnome-libs patch

["John R. Sheets" <dusk ravendusk org>]

On Nov 04, 1999, "Eric Gillespie Jr." <epg@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Touche!  I stand corrected (but still believe on a personal level that
the About menu item should have an ellipsis).  (c:  It's certainly a
potential gray area.

John