Re: [Usability] "Finish" vs. "Close" in gnome-control-center dialogs

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 27 Mar 2006, at 16:45, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> --- Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> > Subject
> > 10 also suffered
> >      severely from Free Software help writers'
> > continuing weakness for
> >      including full-size screenshots in their help
> > -- FFS, stop doing
> >      that!)
>
> Just so I've got this right -- you want FEWER or NO
> full size screenshots in the docs?

That's certainly the approach the Sun guys tried to take when they  
wrote GNOME docs.

(Isn't it still common practice in the publishing industry to reduce  
all screenshots to 60-70% anyway, just because they look too big on  
the page at full size?  I almost never use full-sized screenshots if  
I'm working on UI specs, mockups etc.)

> And why does it say "wallpaper" anyway? Is the style
> guide not clear enough?
> "wallpaper: Do not use this term. Use the term desktop
> background."

There were dissenting voices at the time, but at the end of the day,  
the maintainer gets the final say.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-themes-list/2003-August/ 
msg00046.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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