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| ====== Strings Style Guide ====== | ====== Strings Style Guide ====== |
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| | Note: This document is of course not yet complete. In the interest of openness, I'll refrain from locking this page, but I ask that you limit your edits to fixes of typos and trivial errors. |
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| Xfce has a bunch of text in its user interface (imagine that!), spread out among settings dialogs and the actual app interfaces. Ideally, the style of these strings should be consistent. Style can include word choice, sentence structure, grammar, etc. I'll attempt to collect some common style choices here. Obviously, documenting things like word choice is difficult, so I'll stick to the more abstract stuff. | Xfce has a bunch of text in its user interface (imagine that!), spread out among settings dialogs and the actual app interfaces. Ideally, the style of these strings should be consistent. Style can include word choice, sentence structure, grammar, etc. I'll attempt to collect some common style choices here. Obviously, documenting things like word choice is difficult, so I'll stick to the more abstract stuff. |