Re: String review

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Sep 2005, at 19:49, Christian Persch wrote:

> To fix this, I think we need:
> - a String Guidelines addendum to the HIG. The HIG already tells us  
> what
> capitalisation to use in which circumstances; we need a complete style
> guide;

I'd certainly be quite happy for the HIG to include a list of common  
alert messages... we only give one or two now, and they're only  
really given as examples, rather than "please use this verbatim if it  
fits your situation".

Perhaps we could set up an area on http://live.gnome.org/ 
UsabilityTeam or (http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject) to list  
the messages that people most want to see, and decide on their  
wording before adding them to the HIG?  Seems like it would get a bit  
unwieldy to do it in a bug report.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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