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

[Bill Wohler <wohler newt com>]

Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> writes:

> The Gnome Guidelines do includes capitalisation rules but I'm not sure
> they are exactly the same but since Sun Microsystems helped write a lot of
> the documentation there is a good chance they are.

Not even close in this regard. Compare:

http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/HIG.Visual3.html#78052
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-text-labels.html#layout-capitalization

If it's true that Sun helped to write the GNOME guidelines, it is
strange that the Java guidelines are so different in this regard. I
wonder why that is?

> Not sure I entirely trust those Java guidelines, the manage to mispell
> centimetres and they use an unnecessary abbreviatoin "don't"  :P

It's not just the Java guidelines, Americans haven't spoken English in
years. Is "abbreviatoin" the Irish spelling of "abbreviation?" ;-).

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