Comment 49 for bug 146918

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Mark Steadman (bugaroosa) wrote :

In general names in menus are either nouns(OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) or verbs in the imperative case (Open, Save, Uninstall foo, Add/Remove Programs, etc.). The question is should the description be a longer name for the action (Open -> Open a Document [longer name for open]) or a description of the action (Open -> Opens a document [description]), since expansions do both? If you decide on a name like "GNOME Login Sound" it makes sense to provide a description in the descriptive case "Plays the login sound." Since it makes sense to have a name/description pair in order to be consistent one should have also a verb/description. The other option would be short name/long name where the long name would make it clear what it does (Mozilla Firefox/Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser).b