Bug 2615

Summary: Unify spaces in strings
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Christian Hesse <mail>
Component: UIAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.8.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Unify spaces in strings
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Description Christian Hesse 2012-02-24 10:41:07 UTC
Created attachment 1084 [details]
Unify spaces in strings

Some strings look like "foo bar %s...", some look like "foo bar %s ...". (Note the extra space.) This patch unifies all cases to the second one.
Comment 1 Paul 2012-02-24 19:46:08 UTC
I tend to think that it's better without the space before the ellipsis
Comment 2 Troy 2012-02-24 21:31:05 UTC
I think it looks better with no space before the ellipses too, but apparently that isn't the correct way to display them: http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaEllipses.htm
Comment 3 Ricardo Mones 2012-02-25 18:00:11 UTC
I also think that's better without the space before the ellipsis, and don't believe the usage page linked by Troy has any relevance here.

Ours is not the literary use of ellipsis to indicate a missing or omitted text in a quotation.

On menus is a just a common GUI indicator that the menu entry has a sub-menu available and on status bar messages that the action is still being performed and we're waiting for it to finish.
Comment 4 Christian Hesse 2012-02-25 18:32:10 UTC
Created attachment 1086 [details]
Unify spaces in strings - the other way round

Ok, this patch is just the other way round. Feel free to include either of them.
Comment 5 MoH 2012-02-25 19:14:12 UTC
Gnome HIG seems to support the version with no space:

http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/menus-design.html.en#menu-item-type-command