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Bug 65217

Summary:

[Preferences] GUI blooper (maybe): Preferences now has three dots

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Dan Kehn <kehn>

Component:

Assignee:

Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

trivial

Priority:

CC:

n.a.edgar, Tod_Creasey

Version:

3.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Preferences... (3.0) versus Preferences (2.x)	none

Description Dan Kehn

2004-06-01 23:05:45 EDT

Build RC1.

Sorry about all these nitty bug reports.  I'm doing screenshots of the two 
versions and can't help but notice these teenie differences.  In this 
case, "Preferences...".  

As I understand the MS style guide, only dialogs that are part of a choice 
refinement have the ellipsis (as opposed to a "destination" dialog).  For 
example, "Properties" (no ellipsis since it is the goal, as it were) 
versus "Save As..." (only a step along the way to the goal).  In V2.x it 
was "Preferences" and now it is "Preferences..." so apparently someone had a 
change of heart.  Was this intentional?

I won't claim to be an expert on the style guide, but I believe it was correct 
in V2.x to the best of my understanding.  Nick Edgar may have an opinion on 
this, or one of the other authors of the Eclipse UI Guidelines.

Comment 1 Dan Kehn

2004-06-01 23:06:22 EDT

Created attachment 11441 [details]
Preferences... (3.0) versus Preferences (2.x)

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2004-06-02 09:31:01 EDT

Our guideline has always been ellipsis if something is going to be opened as a 
result. Nick has this guideline changed?

Comment 3 Nick Edgar

2004-06-02 10:06:57 EDT

See bug 63827 comment #8 for an explanation of when to use "..."


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63827 ***

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2004-06-02 10:07:37 EDT

Dan's summary above is also accurate.