Visual Guide to Widgets

[Datschge]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 10:57, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
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I honestly have to say that some of the changes are irking me. What 
are the reason for the inconsistency of e.g. scrollbar, titlebar, 
toolbar but progress bar? Why separating verb+name word creations 
like check box when those may to lead to problems like "uncheck the 
box" instead "uncheck the check box"? Or will the way to 
differentiate those technical terms from casual text mean to have to 
capitalize all of those terms to clarify them as technical terms?

(Please keep in mind that 1) I'm not a native English speaker and 2) 
combining words to create new words is the natural way to go in my 
native language German. ;) Then again google shows 3,170,000 hits for 
'checkbox' and 1,250,000 for ' "check box" '.)

Also the visual guide might include some KDE specialties like combo 
button [1], active and passive popups and sidebar buttons (and some 
more stuff in case it should cover everything).

Cheers, Datschge

[1] http://usability.kde.org/activity/completed/combobuttondelay.php