[Lazarus] Menu caption standards

[Flávio Etrusco]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:29 AM, José Mejuto <joshyfun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Lazarus-List,
>
> Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 8:35:01 AM, you wrote:
>
> GG> That's not the case in Mozilla Thunderbird. Only modal dialogs have the
> GG> ellipsis in the menu item. Examples:
> GG>  *  'Tools > Preferences' does not.
> GG>  *  'File > New > Message' does not.
> GG>  *  'File > Print' does because it is modal.
> GG>  etc...
> GG> At least this is the case under Linux.
>
> The "..." is added when the menu entry is an action verb and this
> action requires further configuration/data.
>
> Examples:
>
> Open: If the option just only open the file selector no "...", but if
> it opens a configuration window to select which open it should have
> it.
>
> Print: If it prints directly no dots, but if configuration is opened
> then "..."
>
> Select All: If selects all text no "...", but if a dialog is opened to
> define what to select the elipsis must be added.
>
> Configure: The verb itself indicates a new dialog, so it will never
> present an "..."
>
> Ellipsis indicates that a verb need more configuration to finish its
> action. 98% times the opened dialog is a modal dialog.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  José
>

Thanks a lot for all answers. Sorry for the noise, I stand corrected :-)

Best regards,
Flávio