What style for graphical sequences (eg, 'System > Administration > Services')?

Brian Burger blurdesign at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 04:14:54 UTC 2006


On 6/23/06, Mike MacCana <mike.maccana at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, we have a standard. I'll file a bug and correct anything I see using
> anything else.
>
> Should this be made more apparent as well? In much the same way code is
> written in a breakout box, to make it obvious that this is something they
> do, and not part of the instructions?
>
> Apple and Microsoft usually just bold things. I think that'd be a good
> solution for Ubuntu too.
>

I usually bold the Menu->SubMenu->Application bits in the wiki docs I'm
editing, although I'm not as consistent with this as I should be.

Bold & with "->" between seems like a good style, and one that's already
fairly common.

I agree that the pipe (Menu|Submenu|etc) is not too useful.

Brian/Madpilot
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