I would propose that we use an ellipsis for menu items where, in order to perform the most minimal version of the relevant action, the user must provide additional input. So that would be the following (note that none of these items need to be changed from their current form):
Load corpus...
Merge corpora...
Save As...
Export subwindow configuration...
Import subwindow configuation...
Count X-slots...
Export Corpus...
We would NOT use an ellipsis for menu items where just clicking the menu item (or viewing whatever dialog that might pop up) can be fairly reasonably said to complete the action without providing additional user input. So that would be the following (note that items that need to be changed are bolded):
Preferences (because you might just choose to view)
New corpus
Load sample
Close
Save
New sign
Delete sign(s)
Edit sign(s) (because you might just choose to view the sign-level info)
Some nice discussion here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/637683/when-to-use-ellipsis-after-menu-items
I would propose that we use an ellipsis for menu items where, in order to perform the most minimal version of the relevant action, the user must provide additional input. So that would be the following (note that none of these items need to be changed from their current form):
We would NOT use an ellipsis for menu items where just clicking the menu item (or viewing whatever dialog that might pop up) can be fairly reasonably said to complete the action without providing additional user input. So that would be the following (note that items that need to be changed are bolded):