[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2008.11 UI Spec
Willie Walker
William.Walker at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 21 06:20:57 PDT 2008
Here you go! I know the GOK maintainer well, and will prod him to get
to this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548859
If he doesn't do it, and I remember, I'll commit it with his permission.
Will
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:57 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2008, at 09:08, Jedy Wang wrote:
>
> > Hi Calum,
> >
> > The current tooltip for gok is "Type and navigate applications using
> > alternative input devices" and the suggested one in the UI spec is
> > "Navigate applications and type using alternative input devices". The
> > only change is reordering. Is this really what we want?
>
> I re-ordered it because the original wording just doesn't read very
> well, in English-- it suggests that gok helps you "type applications"
> and "navigate applications". But obviously, "type applications"
> doesn't make sense. T
>
> he correct punctuation without re-ordering would be "Type, and
> navigate applications, using alternate input devices", but that also
> reads a bit clumsily for a tooltip.
>
> However, I suggest you don't bother making this change for now. I've
> cc'ed Willie Walker-- perhaps he can make this change in GOK upstream
> for us, and we'll just pick it up when it's done :)
>
> Thanks,
> Calum.
>
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