Re: Menu guidelines updated

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Ben Ford wrote:
> 
> thristian atdot org wrote:
> 
> >I would say "Revert to what?". Items in the File menu are rarely
> >undo-able, and I'm not going to pick a shiny new menu option to see
> >what it does if I have any sort of useful work done. And if I save my
> >work before trying this out, Revert becomes a no-op, greyed out or
> >with a nasty dialog box.
> >
> "Reload from Disk"

If we think "Revert" on its own is unclear, I'd suggest something like
"Revert to Last Saved", which should help people who are familiar with
"Revert" in other apps, and be fairly descriptive to people who've never
come across this feature before.  

"Reload from Disk" is also very descriptive, but it's usually better to
avoid mentioning physical parts of the system like "disks"-- the user
may have no idea their document is actually being stored on a disk, it
may just be somewhere "in the computer" or "on the network" as far as
they're concerned.  And in the case of Linux-based PDAs, for example,
your documents aren't really being stored on a disk in the conventional
sense anyway  :o)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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