[kde-guidelines] CVS - Attempt to summarise

Frans Englich frans.englich at telia.com
Thu Nov 4 13:41:56 CET 2004


On Thursday 04 November 2004 12:27, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:08, Frans Englich wrote:
> > You are referring to file names, and not id tags, right?
>
> sorry, i meant both -> file names and id tags. just as you i think they
> should be consistent.
>
> > The one-word variant is a bit simpler, but I don't think it matters much.
> > However, important is that the naming scheme for id-tags are identical,
> > such that they are consistent.
>
> I fear the one-word variant will not always work (e.g. when the word
> itself is composed of two words like 'mouse-over', or if the identifier
> would not be clear/unique). But I agree a less verbose variant is easier
> 8-)

Add some note about what words to skip(if it matters) in long titles, 
otherwise we'll have _REALLY_ long file names in some cases :)


Cheers,

		Frans


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