Re: Common Vocabulary

[Milo Casagrande <miloc gnome org>]

Hello,

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 17:59, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
>
> We've been working on a new style guide on and off. It's not really
> ready, and doesn't answer any of your questions. But it has some
> info on common terminology and instructions.
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/tree/style-guide

Will definitely give it a read and update myself.

> For the switch, I refer to it like this:
>
> * Switch <gui>Bluetooth</gui> on.
> * Switch <gui>Bluetooth</gui> off.
>
> It's the simplest, most direct way I can think of.
>
> For the +/- buttons, I've been using just the + and - characters
> in <gui> tags. I'm not entirely happen with that.
>
> I would say we should take the accessible name into account, but
> many of these +/- buttons don't have accessible names right now:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660023
>
> I'm open to suggestions.

Right now, I do not have any, apart from using a little bit bigger
element (the + and - signs are really small compared to the rest of
the text) or an image (with all the relevant problems that we might
have with that and different themes).

Ciao.

-- 
Milo Casagrande <miloc gnome org>