Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
- Subject: Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
- From: Ali Ozer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:58:15 -0700
Lowercasing a name is a technique that doesn't apply in all
languages; in addition, these days we have the proxy icon, which more
clearly states whether the document has been saved on disk, in
addition to the dot in the close box, which indicates whether it is
currently saved or not. Neither of these techniques was around when
this guideline was written up. But these days the lowercasing of
"untitled" is unnecessary in addition to being incomplete and unsightly.
Ali
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Brian K." <email@hidden>
Date: July 9, 2005 16:36:47 PDT
To: Ali Ozer <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
"Untitled" is perfectly fine, and the HI guidelines need to be
addressed to clarify this.
Ali
No, it's not "perfectly fine". If you're using NSDocument, then
you can just ignore it for now and let Apple fix it (which is one
way of saying "it's perfectly fine," but developers should be aware
of the subtitles in the reasoning behind this statement of
"perfectly fine"; that is, that's because once apple fixes it, it
will instantly become correct.)
The HI guidelines are already quite clear:
"Name a new document window “untitled”; leaving it lowercase makes
it more obvious that the
window doesn’t have a name and encourages people to save the
document. If the user chooses New
again before saving the first untitled window, name the second
window “untitled 2,” and so on. Add
numbers to window titles only when there is more than one open
untitled window. Don’t put a “1”
on the first untitled window, even after the user opens other new
windows." (Page 181)
I apologize for continuing this off-topic thread.
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