[Usability] HIG Clarification for "Close Without Saving" button
- From: Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>
- To: Usability <usability gnome org>
- Subject: [Usability] HIG Clarification for "Close Without Saving" button
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:00:21 -0400
I'm working on evaluating (and hopefully improving) the consistency of
save confirmation dialogs in Gnome [1] and there's a bug in the HIG that
is holding me up. [2]
As the comments on the bug explain, the problem is that the "Close" and
"Close without Saving" buttons both have "C" as their shortcut key. This
should be relatively simple to resolve.
A smaller issue (also mentioned in the bug comments): I'm not sure if
the "w" in "Close without Saving" should be capitalized or not.
The HIG says [3] that "Command button labels" should use "header"
capitalization and that means all initial-caps, except for "Prepositions
of three or fewer letters: at, for, by, in, to". So I think "without"
should have an upper-case W. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
Any help in getting this resolved would be appreciated as I'm hoping to
help several applications improve HIG compliance in their save
confirmation dialogs but can't until this is resolved.
Thanks,
Steven Garrity
[1] http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/
[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162947
[3]
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-text-labels.html#layout-capitalization
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