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

[Bill Wohler <wohler newt com>]

Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:

> It's worth bearing in mind that British and US rules
> on title capitalization are different.

And even within the Chicago Manual of Style, there are variations, yes.
But the basics are the same.

> '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.

It does, however, allow you to use it in a sentence without quoting.

> 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

Not sure how I missed that table. Thanks!

One advantage that the Java Design Guidelines have is that you don't
need to look up the capitalization in table all the time--use Headline
capitalization everywhere.

I agree the sentence capitalization does look better in some
circumstances, but the simplicity of Java's rule, and the ability to use
without quoting in documentation are pretty strong reasons to use
headline capitalization always.

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