PR# 12049 A few menus use ellipses inappropriately
Problem Report Summary
Submitter: peter_gummer
Category: EiffelStudio
Priority: Low
Date: 2007/02/11
Class: Bug
Severity: Non-critical
Number: 12049
Release: 6.0.6.6451
Confidential: No
Status: Suspended
Responsible:
Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Synopsis: A few menus use ellipses inappropriately
Description
According to the Windows User Interface Design Specifications and Guidelines at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997617.aspx, under the "Ellipses" heading a third of the way down the page, some of EiffelStudio's menus are using (or not using) ellipses inappropriately. File | Print should be File | Print... (Note that Microsoft's own applications all seem to conform to this guideline.) Help | About EiffelStudio... should be Help | About EiffelStudio. (Microsoft conforms to this guideline too.) Tools | Preferences... should be Tools | Preferences. (Microsoft breaks its own guideline here: Windows Explorer and Visual Studio both have Tools | Options...) Project | Project Settings... should be Project | Project Settings. (Visual Studio's equivalent -- View | Properties Window -- conforms to this guideline.) There are a few other dubious uses of ellipses in EiffelStudio menus, but they seem no worse than the dubious ones in Visual Studio. I've only mentioned the most egregious deviations from the guidelines.
To Reproduce
Problem Report Interactions
Project | Freeze... , Finalize... should be Project | Freeze , Finalize Project | Compilation Error &Wizard... should be Project | Compilation Error &Wizard Debug | Exception Handling... should be Debug | Exception Handling... Tools | Profiler should be Tools | Profiler Wizard Tools | Precompilation Wizard... should be Tools | Precompilation Wizard Tools | Dynamic Library Builder... should be Tools | Dynamic Library Builder