RFC: Rules of capitalization for labels

Tim Wootton tim at tee-jay.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 10 08:45:22 PDT 2014


On 10/07/14 15:56, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:07:33PM +0100, Tim Wootton wrote:
>> 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"
> I think that makes perfect sense.
>
> OK, who feels like hunting through all the texts and making this
> consistent? This way I can push this to Transifex now before everyone
> translates the current mess?
I can work on that this evening.
>
>
> /D
>
>>> 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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