[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Ellipsis

[Heiko Tietze]

On Friday 10 January 2014, 15:34:51 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Thursday 09 January 2014 12:36:08 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> > * Do not use an ellipsis for selections which result in actions (such as
> > Save or Print Preview) or do not require user input (such as configuration
> > dialogs).
> 
> While merging this page with the Labels page, I noticed that there is
> something I'm not sure if I understand correctly. Do you mean that a menu
> entry which opens a configuration dialog (such as Configure Shortcuts")
> should not use an ellipsis? If so, all KDE applications would be violating
> this guideline, because all menu entries for configuration currently use an
> ellipsis.
> If this is not what oyu mean here, then what _do_ you mean? ;)

Ellipsis should not be used when a decent dialog is opened by the function. It 
is, perhaps, some kind of modal vs modeless discrimination too, with the 
latter not being ellipsized.

(This page was entirely written by Celeste.)