On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 07:12 -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote: > Yesterday, during a GNOME training class, a question came up about some > GNOME terminology. I am hoping that someone here can point me to > discussions on the following topics. > > 1. When dealing with dialogs relating to gnome-panel , sometimes the word > "Preferences" is used and sometimes the word "Properties" is used. What > is the best way to distinguish the difference for a non-technical user? > > 2. The completion interaction in GNOME when updating properties, preferences, > and applications has been mentioned many time by our users (who are > not programmers, in general). 1) This kind of issue is probably discusses in the Documentation Style Guide (http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/book1.html), which includes a section on vocabulary. If it does not, it probably should, and you might contact the authors about it. 2) This is discusses in the HIG (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/), specially in http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/windows.html#instant-apply and maybe elsewhere. HTH, -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano gnome org>
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