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 Generally, settings dialogs consist of lots of short strings of text describing an option, often (well, hopefully often) with a tooltip that explains in a bit more detail. Generally, settings dialogs consist of lots of short strings of text describing an option, often (well, hopefully often) with a tooltip that explains in a bit more detail.
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 +==== Dialog Implementation Details ====
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 +Unless there's a good reason not to, [[http://www.xfce.org/documentation/api/libxfcegui4/XfceTitledDialog.html|XfceTitledDialog]] should be used for settings dialogs.  The "subtitle" string for the dialog should be used as a description of what the dialog does or of what the user can use the dialog for, and should **not** be used to ask the user to do something.
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 +For example, in a (fictitious) settings dialog that allows the user to configure various text layout parameters, the title might be simply "Layout" or "Layout Settings," and a good subtitle might be "Configure text layout parameters," "Text layout configuration," or, if you're feeling a bit more verbose, even possibly "Control various parameters related to text layout" (though I'd recommend something shorter).
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 +Transient dialogs that are opened to ask the user a question or to allow the user to input some data before being dismissed generally shouldn't use XfceTitledDialog.
  
 ==== Text Involved in Layout ==== ==== Text Involved in Layout ====