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Review use of ellipses (...) in menu items #362

Closed kvesik closed 4 weeks ago

kvesik commented 1 month ago

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):

kvesik commented 1 month ago

Some of the menu options don't actually match what I said above...