Keyboard key terminology

[M.P. Rommedahl]

We actually had a discussion about this in our programming class (IRL) last
week. It seemed that nobody (except me and the teacher :) ) knew what
'Return' was, and only knew it as 'Enter'.

Also, personally, I have always used Enter, and believe that it should be
used. On the other hand, we should follow the GNOME Style Guide if at all
possible - so I don't know what to suggest.. :)

mp

2008/4/9, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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