Re: "About" (Re: gcalc docs (unfinished))

["Judith Samson" <judith samson usaserve net>]

In English, when people see "Info," I think they usually expect help.
"About" is weird, as Dan said, but it's the unspoken standard everywhere. I
think it started with Apple, no?
>
> > An aside:  Does "About" sound good to your American/British ears?
> > Telsa?  For the German translations we aggred to use "Info..." as the
> > menue entry to call the so called About box.
>
> No.  It sounds strange(IMO).  I guess we are all used to seeing this used
> so much we don't notice anymore.  It has become a standard though, so it
> is better to follow it, from a UI perspective. The good point is it is
> sufficiently unusual that nobody would consider using "About" anywhere
> else in their program.  "Info" is a more general and useful term, so maybe
> it is nice that this term is not used up already?
>
> Dan
>
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