Bug report #5780
Most labels in menus are in Title Case
Status: | Closed | ||
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Priority: | Low | ||
Assignee: | - | ||
Category: | GUI | ||
Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
Operating System: | All | Easy fix?: | No |
Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | end of life |
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 15274 |
Description
The Human Interface Guidelines include this:
2.Capitalise first letter only in labels:
Labels (and group box labels) should be written as a phrase with leading
capital letter, and all remaing words written with lower case first letters
I presume this rule is supposed to apply to labels in menus as well as everywhere else. But the majority of labels in menus (including context menus) in QGIS are in Title Case (at least when using English).
I guess if someone had the resources they could do a complete review of the UI vs the HIG. There are other obvious problems, such as sporadic implementation of this:13.If clicking a button will spawn a new dialog, an ellipsis (...) should be
suffixed to the button text.
History
#1 Updated by Alister Hood over 12 years ago
Refer to:
Developers_Manual
#2 Updated by Larry Shaffer over 12 years ago
I think 'Title Case' is normal for most OS HIG menus and menu items, no?
Gnome
http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/design-text-labels.html.en#layout-capitalization
KDE
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Capitalization
Though newer Windows versions appear to be switching:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa974176.aspx#capitalization
#3 Updated by Alister Hood over 12 years ago
If it is just the HIG that needs to be fixed, then even better. Although some plugins like ftools mostly follow the HIG.
#4 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 12 years ago
- Target version set to Version 2.0.0
#5 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 10 years ago
- Target version changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Lower Priority
#6 Updated by Médéric RIBREUX about 9 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
Hello, bug triage...
where can I find the QGIS Developper Manual (or a reference document on HIG) to see if we can close this bug ?
#7 Updated by Alister Hood about 9 years ago
Go to the last section on this page: http://www.qgis.org/de/site/getinvolved/development/qgisdevelopersguide.html
#8 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 9 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Open
#9 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago
- Regression? set to No
- Easy fix? set to No
#10 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 6 years ago
- Resolution set to end of life
- Status changed from Open to Closed
End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR
Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/