Re: [Usability] Describing actions

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 12 Mar 2006, at 13:09, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> Is there anything in the HIG about describing actions
> in general rather than specific terms?
> Eg, for label text, having
> "Run executable text files when they are opened"
> instead of
> "Run executable text files when they are
> double-clicked"

Nothing in the HIG, that's Documentation Styleguide fodder... looks  
like the best list we have there is http://developer.gnome.org/ 
documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-user-actions.html.  It doesn't  
mention files as one of the things you can "open", but since File- 
>Open does just that in most applications, it seems like an  
appropriate verb for this specific example at least.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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