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Menu items should not be capitalized

Open aalex opened this issue 9 years ago • 5 comments

The first word of each menu item is capitalized, but it looks better if it's not.

I would suggest using the Microsoft Windows User Interface Text formatting guidelines.

In short it says:

Use title-style capitalization for titles, sentence-style capitalization for all other UI elements. Exception: For legacy applications, you may use title-style capitalization for command buttons, menus, and column headings if necessary to avoid mixing capitalization styles. However a more thorough read is necessary to take it all in.

aalex avatar Dec 28 '16 18:12 aalex

Not sure I understand what that means, it feels contradictory. Microsoft Windows User Interface Text would suggest naming a menu item using "title-style" eg. "Open console" instead of "Open Console" but NOT "open console". But you are saying we should remove all capital letters (ie. use "open console").

I agree with Microsoft Windows User Interface Text recommendation, not yours.

sofian avatar Dec 28 '16 18:12 sofian

We should use "Open console", not "Open Console" (we use the latter right now)

aalex avatar Dec 28 '16 18:12 aalex

Ok that's good then. It's cause you said originally "The first word of each menu item is capitalized, but it looks better if it's not." which seemed to mean everything should be lowercase.

sofian avatar Dec 28 '16 18:12 sofian

In order to avoid screwing up our translation files, I suggest keeping all the tr() calls and instead editing the mapmap_en.ts .

sofian avatar Dec 28 '16 23:12 sofian

Maybe it's ok to keep them capitalized. Titles are usually capitalized in English.

aalex avatar Apr 05 '18 22:04 aalex