Inconsistency in naming sections in preferences
Bug #560751 reported by
Kris
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Low
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jazzynico |
Bug Description
When browsing through the Inkscape preferences dialog, inconsistensies can be seen in the sections in the right panel (see the text in bold). Sometimes the headers end with a colon, sometimes not.
For example, see the preferences of the pencil tool:
- you have "Create new objects with:" with a colon
- you have "Sketch mode" without a colon
Similarly when comparing the preferences of different tools. The sections of the selector tool preferences end with a colon, those of the node tool do not have a colon.
Whatever the standard would be, usage of the colon should be generalised.
summary: |
- Inconsistency in naming headers in the preferences + Inconsistency in naming sections in preferences |
tags: | added: preferences ui |
Changed in inkscape: | |
assignee: | nobody → JazzyNico (jazzynico) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
milestone: | none → 0.48 |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in inkscape: | |
milestone: | 0.48 → 0.49 |
tags: | added: hig |
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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> Whatever the standard would be, usage of the colon should be generalised.
The gnome HIG (http:// library. gnome.org/ devel/hig- book/stable/) is not very clear about it, but I think that we should do the opposite and ban colons in group headers (Gimp and Scribus don't use colons).
There are other punctuation inconsistencies in Inkscape:
1. Period at the end of the tooltips (not sure what's right here).
2. Missing colon after labels.
3. Incorrect period at the end of labels (checkboxes or radio buttons).
And the preferences dialog is very clean compared to the extensions dialogs...