Bug 255299

Summary:	Kicker menu items have inconsistent description styles
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	giorgos.tsiapaliokas
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Yao Ziyuan 2010-10-26 11:39:22 UTC

Version:           4.5 (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

Open the Kicker menu, switch to the Leave tab, move the mouse onto "Lock Screen", and you'll see a description: "Lock Screen"; then move the mouse onto "Restart Computer", and you'll see a description: "Restart computer". So why is the first description uses a capitalized "Screen" while the second uses a lowercased "computer"? Such inconsistency in writing style makes KDE seem unprofessional.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1 Yao Ziyuan 2010-10-26 11:46:33 UTC

Correction: "Restart Computer" has a description "Restart Computer" which is consistent with "Lock Screen" in style; "Log Out" has a description "End session" which is inconsistent with "Lock Screen" as "session" is all lowercased.

Comment 2 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas 2010-12-31 16:14:24 UTC

i am using kde-4.5.4 and the issue has been solved.
now all these menu items have right description.

Comment 3 Yao Ziyuan 2011-04-19 11:18:41 UTC

The bug is not fixed. In KDE 4.6.0 (Fedora 15 Alpha KDE Live CD), Kicker's Leave tab has these menu items and their respective descriptions:

Log out | End session
Lock | Lock Screen
Switch User | Start a parallel session as a different user
Sleep | Suspend to RAM
Restart | Restart Computer
Shut down | Turn off computer

As seen above, even two menu items "Log out" and "Switch User" have different capitalization styles (the former uses an all-lowercased "out" while the latter uses a capitalized "User").

Also, descriptions use different capitalization styles.

I understand that in such a large project as KDE there are many contributors who may have different editorial styles and we must tolerate it to some degree. But considering the Kicker menu is such a prominent and frequently used object, shouldn't we pay extra attention to its editorial style?

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2011-04-21 13:59:16 UTC

Git commit 3b0a95e1b898074be3ecc85a5bcf19250d9c70a2 by Aaron Seigo.
Committed on 19/04/2011 at 13:56.
Pushed by aseigo into branch 'master'.

consistent capitalization

BUG:255299

M  +3    -3    plasma/desktop/applets/kickoff/core/leavemodel.cpp     

http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/3b0a95e1b898074be3ecc85a5bcf19250d9c70a2