Keyboard key terminology

[Andrew Stabeno]

It seems to me that Return is out dated and has pretty much been replaced by Enter.  Non of the keyboards I have, have a return key.  I vote to use Enter.  The days of typewriters are long gone.

 

From: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of M.P. Rommedahl
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:44 PM
To: philbull at gmail.com
Cc: Ubuntu Doc
Subject: Re: Keyboard key terminology

 

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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Phil Bull
http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull



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