Re: [Usability]mnemonics on notebook tabs

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Can anybody explain why the HIG says this?

Mea culpa... it's a guideline I've been carrying around with me for
years, though, and I've kind of forgotten where it orginally came from
:)  (I notice, however, that the Windows styleguide still seems to
concur, without actually explaining why).

> If there are no plans to change this in the HIG I plan to remove the
> mnemonics. We can't be inconsistent just because we don't have 100%
> agreement.

I already have a shortlist of things like this that I'd like to tweak in
the HIG over the next few days (which shouldn't really render any
existing compliant apps non-compliant), so if nobody has any usability
objections I'm happy to change this guideline as well.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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