Re: [lmi] Ellipses in menus

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:59:48 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> I'm thinking of removing the ellipsis for
GC>   Help | About
GC> because its dialog is not meaningfully interactive,
GC> 
GC> and adding ellipses for
GC>   File | Default...
GC>   File | Preferences...
GC> because theirs are.
...
GC> I'll entertain objections for twenty-four hours.

 No objections from me, quite the contrary.

 FWIW "About" used to take an ellipsis, but this has de facto changed quite
some time ago, maybe under influence of Mac OS where it always (AFAIK) was
"About App" or "About This Mac", without an ellipsis, and MSW itself
doesn't use an ellipsis after "About" since at least Windows XP.

 OTOH "Preferences..." or "Options..." menu item has always used and still
continues to everywhere and lack of it in lmi was a bit jarring, so adding
it there is even more important than removing it from "About".

 Regards,
VZ