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Subject: Re: The Aqua HIG is incoherent.
From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:10:22 -0600

At 1:30 PM +0100 1/14/02, Stiphane Sudre wrote:

There was an old rule saying that as soon as a Menu Item displays a Window or dialog, the Menu Item title should end with an ellipsis.

I don't remember that ever being the rule.

Rather, the rule was that any command which required user input to complete should have an ellipsis. Unfortunately, everyone put an ellipsis at the end of their About menu item, which led pretty directly to the belief that the rule was as you state above. I think Apple started this trend with "About This Macintosh...".

-- Chris

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