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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: StyleGuide for Labels? (fwd)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-07-05 19:16:52
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Looks good to me. Feel free to add a section to the style guide covering this.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Peter Putzer wrote:
> Since no-one on kde-look replied to Tom, I'd like the developers to have
> a look at his reasoning (which coincides with mine :)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:53:00 -0400
> From: Tom Hoferek <tomh@corel.com>
> Reply-To: kde-look@kde.org
> To: kde-look@kde.org
> Subject: Re: RFC: StyleGuide for Labels? (fwd)
> Resent-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:53:32 +0200
> Resent-From: kde-look@master.kde.org
>
> I agree that we need a standard. There are companies that have published
> standards for label capitalization even if they don't always follow them.
> Interesting that there seem to be as many people claiming that they've
> heard that one style of capitalization is easier to read than the other.
> I'll add my voice to those that believe sentence style capitalization is
> easier to read. Of course this applies to sentences, which are usually
> found in paragraphs, printed on pages. Labels are a different animal. The
> readability argument alone is not what should be the deciding factor.
> Information hierarchy plays a role here.
>
> I've been through this debate before when writing corporate GUI standards.
> What I have found to work in the past is to define a hierarchy. Some labels
> are more like titles or headings, while others simply identify an option or
> control, etc. I suggest that we identify two levels of label hierarchy and
> treat the higher level with book title capitalization and the lower level
> sentence style capitalization. How about breaking it down like the
> following excerpt taken from a corporate GUI style guide I authored? It
> would probably apply equally as well here. I think Peter suggested
> something like this (without going into the details).
>
> Use either book title capitalization or sentence style capitalization as
> indicated in the lists below.
>
> Example of Book Title Capitalization
>
> Example of sentence style capitalization
>
> Book title capitalization:
> - window and dialog box titles
> - group box / group line labels
> - button labels
> - tab labels
> - listview column headers
> - menu titles / menu items
> - listbox items
> - tree list items*
> - other heading/title text
>
> Sentence style capitalization:
> - edit box labels
> - list box labels
> - combo box labels
> - spin box labels
> - check box labels
> - option button labels
> - spin box labels
> - slider labels
> - pop-up hint text
> - other non heading/title text
>
> *Tree list items that are representative of items found elsewhere in the
> system, like folders for example, should utilize the capitalization of the
> represented items.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom

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