Re: gnome-help: deprecated ON and OFF gui labels

Shaun McCance <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On pages I've done, I've always written "switch <gui>foobar</gui> on"
and "switch <gui>foobar</gui> off", not referring to the actual on/off
label (which many translations have not used for quite some time).

Using images just adds more assets to ship, and has accessibility
implications. Using Unicode characters probably wouldn't be good for
accessibility. The docs would then read "switch foobar to white circle"
and "switch foobar to vertical line". If that's not how the UI is read,
that would be very confusing.

--
Shaun

On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 19:11 -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Pages that make mentions to enable/disable features still tell
> "switch feature <gui>foobar</gui> to <gui>ON</gui>", or OFF. Since
> GNOME 3.20 (or 3.18? Not sure), the GUI uses something similar to a
> vertical line ( | ) to OFF, and something like a white circle ( ○
> ) to ON.
> 
> I'm considering to provide a patch replacing texts ON to ○ and OFF to
> |. Alternatively, I could create and use PNG images in place of these
> gui labels.
> 
> What are your thoughts on this?
> 
> Best regards,
> Rafael Fontenelle
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