On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 00:58 -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote: > Hi all, > > I have noticed that different Gnome apps have quite different dialog > windows for prompting the user to save the current document before > closing the window. For example: > > == Abiword== > Save the changes to document Untitled1 before closing? > Your changes will be lost if you don't save them. > [Close _Without Saving] [_Cancel] [_Save] > > == Gedit == > Save changes to document "Unsaved Document 1" before closing? > If you don't save, changes from the last 11 minutes will be permanently lost. > [Close _without Saving] [_Cancel] [Save _As] > > == gThumb == > The current image has been modified, do you want to save it? > [ ] _Do not display this message again > [Do _Not Save] [Save _As] > > (Notice also capitalization differences.)
As for the capitalization difference, it should be "Close Without Saving". Different style guides will give different answers about how many letters is enough to capitalize a preposition, but I've never seen one that says a seven-letter preposition should be lowercase. -- Shaun McCance http://syllogist.net/ _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
