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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The use of "..." for menu items that show a dialog with extra options
necessary to perform the operation has been in Microsoft's UX guidelines
and apple's HIG since time immemorial:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn742392.aspx#usingellipses

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/TerminologyWording.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-CH15-SW3

https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/writing-style.html.en#ellipses

It is a very well known and traditional convention and Kicad shouldn't
break it. As the guidelines say, the ellipsis (...) is reserved for
commands that need further input from the user to proceed, showing a modal
dialog shouldn't be enough to warrant adding the ellipsis (though I've seen
several programs be ellipsis-happy and put it on everything that calls a
dialog...)

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi JP,
>
> thanks a lot!!
>
> I am a little unsure about this "Save as..." three dots thing used every
> time the menu item takes you to a second window. but I will investigate
> about UI stuff a little.
>
> cheers
> Fabrizio
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:44 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Le 30/05/2017 à 14:54, Fabrizio Tappero a écrit :
>> > Hello Wayne,
>> > In attachment you can find a good review of approx 30 icons and a global
>> > simplification of approx 30 icons.
>> > I have also corrected some menu labels.
>> >
>> > Since there is a lot of corrected text that is very much related to
>> > English, it would be great if you could review it before submitting it.
>> A
>> > not so fun work but I think it will make kicad a much better tool.
>> >
>> > I think it would be recommendable to avoid "a" and "the" in button and
>> menu
>> > tooltips. So that it way easier to understand what the button or
>> tooltip is
>> > about. The use of singular plural is also inconsistent and I tried to
>> fix
>> > it. Please Wayne feel free to make any changes you think is important.
>> >
>> > I have also notices that several menus are a little inconstant. I will
>> try
>> > work on it since I think the current kicad UI is very usable but it
>> needs
>> > to be more consistent.
>> >
>> > I have tried to fixed a lot of icons so that their meaning is more
>> > immediate to understand. I have as well started a process of
>> simplification
>> > of many redundant icons. I think it is important that we begin
>> simplifing
>> > the kicad icon set because at the moment is really too large.
>> >
>> > Here below a detailed description of the changes.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Fabrizio
>>
>>
>> Hi Fabrizio,
>>
>> I committed your icons.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
>
>
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