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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Idiot proof kmenu
From:       Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date:       2002-06-18 17:18:03
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Hi all,

> > screenshots, binaries, sources:
> > http://home.in.tum.de/~held/kmenu/
> This looks very nice and I liked it at first glance, but the style of
> breaking up a complete sentence is problematic - do all languages on earth
> have a sentence structure like this? You are German, or? How would you make
> this menu in German? "Beginnen Sie hier, um ein Textdokument zu erzeugen"
> already has an order of sentence-parts that does not work.

I've asked the i18n people in the past, and this kind of "breaking up 
sentances thing" is very bad idea. Just use 'telegraphic' phrases and words, 
and don't try to form full sentances, is the best advice I can give. People 
don't read full sentances in GUIs or the web anyway. They just scan...

-- 
Simon Edwards             | Guarddog Firewall
simon@simonzone.com       | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice."


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