On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 03:55:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I am more concerned by the fact that I do not remember of _any_ app > doing what you propose.
It seems that indeed we should stick our heads in the sand and completely ignore what any of the guidelines say. This is like File->Quit - it makes absolutely no sense but it really should be there. > John> Uh, read what you quoted to me. Applicationdialogs are supposed > John> to have an ellipsis, document content views not. > > The way I understand it is that, if the window you open is not a > dialog but something that is immediately useful without pressing OK, > then there is no ellipsis. Examples of that are 'Get Info' in finder, > or 'Propoerties' menu entry that you get when right-clicking a file in > windows explorer (or View>Page Info in mozilla). These things merely > show new information and thus no additional interaction is needed. The Windows specific examples contradict this. I've already tried explain "extra information" vs. "information" ... > An example where we could use that is for the math panel. No, if we go for ellipsis == dialog, we should not vary on it at all, with the exception of ones that *may* bring up a dialog, such as "Save". regards john -- "I will eat a rubber tire to the music of The Flight of the Bumblebee"
