Subject: Re: Word count nitpicks
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 11:38:11 CST
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 02:52 AM 3/26/00 +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> >1) The labels are centered. I think they would lock better left-alligned.
> >But that's just my opinion.
>
> Feel free to submit a patch for this. I don't know what Thomas did on QNX,
> but they're left-aligned on Win32. ;-)
Although I neglected to mention this to the list, the reason for the
center alignment was my simple ignorance (that dialog was my first use of
GTK). I was unable to get individual table cells (which is what those
labels are) to align left, even though I tried. If someone here knows
how, I agree that it would look better.
>
> >3) The word count menu item has three periods after it. Doen't this mean
> >that the command requires information from the user to complete? That's
> >what the Apple human interface manual says, and I don't know if it was
> >inherited by other platforms. All menu commands in AbiWord that bring up a
> >dialog have a "..." after them, and the only two I can find that should
> >not according to the preceding definition are "About AbiWord Personal..."
> >and "Word Count...".
>
> I haven't read Apple's guidelines, but my usual expectations are that any
> menu item with three dots brings up a dialog. Since the menu item for Mac
> about boxes also has three dots, I think we're fine as is.
>
Well, the two dialogs mentioned are the only ones that don't require human
intervention, so if we should specify them differently, then that seems
reasonable. In general, the HI guidelines have a fairly good record
(AFAIK).
> >Other than these, the word count dialog looks great. It's much better than
> >the one I have used in old revisions of MS Word where the user had to
> >press "Count" to get any numbers and then wait a few second for it to
> >tally the figures.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul
>
Even though it's sort of cheap to compare AbiWord now to Word five years
ago (even if we haven't hit 1.0 yet), I appreciate the compliment.
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
http://bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu
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