Re: [Usability] ‘extraneous text’ in dialogs

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Mariano [ISO-8859-1] Suárez-Alvarez wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:08:47 -0300
> From: "Mariano [ISO-8859-1] Suárez-Alvarez" <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>
> To: GNOME Usability List <usability gnome org>
> Subject: [Usability] [utf-8] â^ ^Xextraneous textâ^ ^Y in
>     dialo[utf-8] gs
>
> Hi all,

> What's the current stance on things like
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143592> and
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143594>?

Both of those bugs refer to explantory text in brackets after a sentence
in dialogs (it definately looks kind of ugly), specifically in Gnome
Terminal.

I think rephrasing to take things out of brackets would help, possibly
reorgansing the interface to be more self explanatory.  Since these are
essentially tips it would make sense to put them in tooltips.  (Which is
pretty much what dobey said.)

It would be a shame of Gnome Terminal was unable to follow the style of
other Gnome applications but it is something of a special case.

-- 
Alan