RE: [ros-dev] Role of UI coordinator and committing

[Casper Hornstrup]

Which OS does this? Windows has it for Run..., but not for Shut Down.
But Run can do many things. Run a program, open a document, open an URL.
It's kind of hard to make space for it all.

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
> Derek
>  Hinchliffe
>  Sent: 28. oktober 2005 08:32
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Role of UI coordinator and committing
>  
>  
>  Casper Hornstrup wrote:
>  <snip>
> >   ... are usually used when there isn't enough
> > space left to write what you
> >  want to write. There is lots of space here to write "Log Off User" and
> >  "Turn Off Computer". 
>  
>  Elipses (...) are also used in menu items when clicking on the item will
>  result in some sort of dialog box before any real action is actually
>  taken.
>  
>  So if clicking the 'Turn Off Computer' were to result in a prompt giving
>  (for example) the option of Turning Off or Cancelling, then it should be
>  written 'Turn Off Computer...'.  But if clicking it immediately initiates
>  the shutdown process then it should have no '...'.  The dots just gives
>  the user a subtle hint that there will be more required to perform the
>  action after clicking the item.
>  
>  Cheers
>  Derek
>  
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