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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

cheers Jose,
I will look into it and submit all necessary fix next week.

cheers
Fabrizio


On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:05 PM, José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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