I did a quick "grep" survey of .ui files installed on my own system. I see 71 instances of ... and 28 instances of U+2026. I'm inclined to stick with ... (unless you really like the ellipsis character for some reason).
John Darrington <[email protected]> writes: > There is a Unicode character for an ellipsis. I wonder if > we ought to use that instead of three dots. > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:36:45PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines say: > > Label the menu item with a trailing ellipsis ("...") only if > the command requires further input from the user before it > can be performed. Do not add an ellipsis to items that only > present a confirmation dialog (such as Delete), or that do > not require further input (such as Properties, Preferences or > About). > > Most PSPPIRE menu items fit this description, so they should have > trailing ellipses, which this commit adds. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
