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

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:45 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
> wrote:
>
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html
> 
> These are guidelines, and it uses appropriate
> terminology where
> appropriate. The guidelines are ignorant of the
> separation of image and
> color for the desktop background. These two items
> are not mutually
> inclusive into a single object and term.
> 
> Also: http://makeashorterlink.com/?A21F13DDC
> 
> Practically every movie site, and theme site, calls
> desktop backgrounds,
> "wallpaper". 

Just because Microsoft chose to use that term, and
everybody is following, doesn't mean we should.
OS X doesn't even use a term in the preferences,
except in the desktop context menu, where is says
'desktop background'.


The fact that it says "Wallpaper" is
> not confusing. The
> fact that it says "Add" is. And in more cases than
> not, "Add" in the
> file chooser dialog is much more confusing than "Add
> Wallpaper" in the
> main capplet UI.
> 
> So, no, the style guide is in fact, not clear
> enough. 

Fair enough.
Parts of the style guide are outdated and refer to
things not seen since GNOME 1.
I plan on reviewing it after 2.14.1 is out.
It now has a component on bugzilla, under gnome-docu.
Please file a bug :)


		
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