Keyboard key terminology

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Phil,

I've already commented on this bug and think it's a little mute - most keyboards I've checked don't use a word but a symbol and in there really isn't any confusion here, as there is no other key it could be confused with.

But if we must, then following the Gnome style guide would seem prudent.

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Cheers,

Dougie

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Phil Bull
Sent: 09 April 2008 17:03
To: Ubuntu Doc
Subject: Keyboard key terminology

Hi guys,

We have a bug [1] where the reporter recommends that we refer to the Return/Enter key as "Enter" instead of "Return". It seems that we currently refer to that key by both names in the documentation; I think that it would be a good idea to standardise on one and put a note in the style guide about it. The question is, which variant should we use?

It's worth noting that the GNOME Style Guide [2] recommends using "Return". I also ran the following commands on the ubuntu-intrepid
branch:

$ find `pwd` -wholename "*/C/*.xml*" | xargs grep "<keycap>Return" | wc -l
27

$ find `pwd` -wholename "*/C/*.xml*" | xargs grep "<keycap>Enter" | wc -l
8

The reporter of the bug and another commenter feel that "Enter" is the more commonly-used term, however. Does anyone have a strong preference either way?

Thanks,

Phil

[1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/213104
[2] -
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/2.22/gnome-glossary-generic-terms.html.en

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