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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2008-07-25 16:06:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2008-07-25 16:06:36 +0200 |
| commit | 4b1ba679f6d806e6f077b05846ff1e7bce76453f (patch) | |
| tree | 2b9a8fc92baa2346552b05d92094cc1f20cc9070 | |
| parent | e56e693455d80509da875ef43a870a72d6622eb7 (diff) | |
document why dialog-error and not error-dialog
| -rw-r--r-- | spec/sound-naming-spec.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/spec/sound-naming-spec.xml b/spec/sound-naming-spec.xml index 9d63860..f313c3b 100644 --- a/spec/sound-naming-spec.xml +++ b/spec/sound-naming-spec.xml @@ -158,7 +158,17 @@ usage. result. However, if the more specific item does not exist in the current theme, and does exist in a parent theme, the generic sound from the current theme is preferred, in - order to keep consistent style. + order to keep consistent style. From left to right the + words in a sound name become more specific. In some cases + what word in a name is more specific is + ambiguous. (i.e. "dialog-error" and "error-dialog" both + make sense, the former would ease defining the same sound + for all dialogs popping up, regardless of its context, the + latter would ease defining the same sound for all errors, + regardless of how it is presented to the user). In such + cases it is generally preferred to put the UI element noun + left -- if there is one --, however exceptions of this + rule are acceptable. </para> </listitem> <listitem> |