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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Spelling of OK? (fwd)
From:       Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () dalheimer ! hh ! eunet ! de>
Date:       1998-09-05 20:26:55
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David Faure:
>On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 05:13:05PM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:
>> 
>> > From: Joe Orton <joe@weaver.org>
>> 
>> > Subject: KDE Spelling of OK?
>> 
>> > There are lots of (120 ish) places where "Ok" is used for buttons in KDE,
>> > and some (80 ish) where "OK" is used - I think (as does my dictionary)
>> > that these should really all be be "OK". 
>> 
>> yesm you are correct. Consistency is very important.
>> On the other hand I VERY much prefer "Ok" in order to be compatible more 
>> to non KDE stuff (e.g. qt).
>Why ? Does QT says "Ok" instead of "OK" ? Then it's only a consistency
>problem, not a "compatibility" one.
>
>Oh, in fact I had a look : QT isn't consistent at all about this :
>
>Sometimes all caps :
>dialogs/qfiledialog.cpp:    okB = new QPushButton( tr("OK"), this, "OK" );
>
>Sometimes with first letter uppercase :
>dialogs/qprintdialog.cpp:    ok->setText( "Ok" );
>
>Sometimes all lowercase :
>dialogs/qprintdialog.cpp:    QPushButton * ok = new QPushButton( this, "ok" );
>

This last thing is the widget name and not the label. The other two are still
inconsistent.

Kalle

>Arnt ?
>
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