[Usability] HIG Clarification for "Close Without Saving" button



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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