Re: [Usability] Re: New UI for gnome-about-me capplet

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Bill Wohler <wohler newt com> wrote:

> Diego González <diego pemas net> writes:
> 
> > Clicking on the "Address book card" would show a
> dialog very simmilar to
> > the current evolution "new contact" dialog.
> >
> > What do you think about this new UI? how can it be
> improved?
> 
> If the GNOME standard calls for headline
> capitalization, your UI needs
> to use it. In practice, the GNOME apps are
> inconsistent (which is
> unfortunate).
> 
> I'm actually a Java programmer and use the following
> guidelines:
> 
>  
>
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/HIG.Visual3.html#78052
> 
> I don't recall whether the GNOME HIG mentions this.
> 

It's worth bearing in mind that British and US rules
on title capitalization are different.
'Automatic Save Every Five Minutes' makes me feel like
I'm being shouted out, or at best, e-nun-cia-ted to
like I'm a bit slow.

The HIG section on Capitalization says to use sentence
capitalization for labels and so on.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-text-labels.html#layout-capitalization


		
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