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

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Bill Wohler wrote:

> Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:39:11 -0700
> From: Bill Wohler <wohler newt com>
> To: Usability gnome org
> Subject: [Usability] Re: New UI for gnome-about-me capplet
>
> 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?

Sun helped but I expect the standards were written to reflect what was
already there rather than trying to force Gnome to conform to Sun
standards.

> > 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?" ;-).

(Centimetre is French anyway.  Maybe that explains why America still
hasn't gone metric?)

Now it all makes sense.  Clear as mud.

-- 
Alan