Press or Click

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Apr 20 10:19:07 UTC 2008


Hi,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:18 -0700, Lloyd Budd wrote:
>  > Looking at "2.1. Checking disk capacity" the instructions start Press
>  > Places > Computer
>  >
>  > Having worked with members of the Apple documentation them this
>  > tripped me up. A press keys on the keyboard and click with the mouse.
>  >
>  > I guess this originates in the GNOME Documentation Style Guide? This
>  > is worth changing.
>
>  If I remember correctly, the GNOME style guide recommends "click", but
>  I've been using "press" for some unfathomable reason. What do other
>  members of the Doc team think? Either term means the same to me.

For me, "click" should be used for the mouse, and "press" for the keyboard.

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