RFC: Rules of capitalization for labels

Tim Wootton tim at tee-jay.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 10 07:07:33 PDT 2014


On 10/07/14 14:59, Tim Wootton wrote:
> My vote's firmly with the 2nd option.
except where subsequent words warrant capitalisation in their own right
e.g. the capital S in something like "Change Subsurface settings"
>
> On 10 Jul 2014 11:06, Sergey Starosek <sergey.starosek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While translating ssrf strings I've noticed that several rules of capitalization are used:
>> All capitals, e.g. "Use Default Cylinder", "Style Options"
>> First capital, e.g. "Time units", "Proxy type"
>> All lowercase, e.g. "threshold when showing pO2"
>> Mixed, even on one tab, even within one groupbox, e.g.
>> "threshold when showing" and "Show non-used cylinders" but "show average depth"
>> "Default Dive file" but "Font size"
>> "Selected dives" and "Selected Dives"
>> Having one rule with minimize number of strings to translate and will make UI more consistent.



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