Rename palettes

• Aug 30, 2012 - 19:22
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

In the palette, change:

'Articulations & Ornaments' to 'Articulations and Ornaments'
'Arpeggio & Glissando' to ''Arpeggio and Glissando'
'Breaks & Spacer' to 'Breaks and Spacers'

The ampersand is probably not right here - 'and' should be used instead.

There are two spacers, so it should be made plural.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (e3d119f) - Mac 10.7.4.

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• Aug 31, 2012 - 19:10

I would keep &. It's small, compact, classy and real estate in the palette is scarse. & is one of the few sign (maybe with @ nowadays) to have the same meaning in various languages.

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• Aug 31, 2012 - 20:35

For a professional program, I think 'and' is better.

There's some exceptions probably, but I think the ampersand is generally for two names (e.g. 'Smith & Smith').

What do you think about making 'Spacer' plural?

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• Sep 1, 2012 - 12:37

We obviously disagree on that one. So we need a authoritative source to make a decision. MuseScore needs a "User Interface Text Style Guide" like OpenOffice has. See http://www.openoffice.org/specs/collaterals/guides/text-style-guide.html

I created a page on musescore.org: http://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/design/user-interface-text-…
This page needs to be completed by using the OpenOffice document as a basis. I created a task #18025: Create MuseScore "User Interface Text Style Guide"
You are very welcome to take the lead on this one.

(for what is worth the OpenOffice.org guidelines agree with you on this particular issue)

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