2008/6/9 Jonathan Ernst jonathan@ernstfamily.ch:
The Windows style is to include the ellipsis whenever a menu item will normally result in a dialog box appearing, not just when further user input is required. I think it is more important to be consistent with what we already have in Wine and with native equivalents of our programs than to conform with certain HIGs.
Do you have any reference for this Windows rule ?
I didn't find it and Firefox, Internet Explorer, Notepad, Paint and OpenOffice on Windows (in French at least) do not have ellipsis in About menu entry (altough Firefox has a special "?" Menu in Windows instead of "Help").
As for what we already have in Wine, regedit and wordpad don't have ellipsis in this place, so I think that notepad is inconsistent with the rest of Wine.
Fair enough. Sorry for the noise.