Re: [Usability] Question on Don't vs Do not

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

Ps, i noticed the guideline / proposal for dialogs does advice the use 
of "Don't Save" (instead of "Do Not Save") at:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/proposals/dialog.html

Is there any place i could file a bug / request to change the above, and 
hopefully in the stock dialogs as well?

   -- Chris

Calum Benson wrote:

> Chris Chabot wrote:
>
> > Since a lot of people down here (netherlands) do use english interfaces
> > on their computers, but just aint-that-fluid-with-it-yet, it might be
> > something to keep in mind?
> >
> > (as far as interface design goes, its only one character extra, so
> > hopefully won't mess any spacing up)
>
> You're right, it's usually better to avoid contractions or any other
> abbreviations in GUIs.  This should be in the Language section of the
> GNOME UI Guidelines, except... er, nobody's written that section yet. 
> (It *is* in the GNOME Documentation Styleguide, though, and anyone
> designing a GUI should mostly be following that too, when writing any
> labels or messages.)