102265 - Remove dot after "Use <productname> Mail as the default mail application"

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[André Dahlqvist]

The label "When Mail launches, show the Start Page in the message area" which
can be found on the "Mail & Newsgroups" panel in the preferences does not have a
dot after it, which most other labels above textfields has. Below is a patch for
this:

Index: pref-mailnews.dtd
===================================================================
RCS file:
/cvsroot/mozilla/mailnews/base/prefs/resources/locale/en-US/pref-mailnews.dtd,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 pref-mailnews.dtd
--- pref-mailnews.dtd   2001/09/06 03:39:18     1.20
+++ pref-mailnews.dtd   2001/09/28 21:59:56
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 <!ENTITY useMessenger.label               "Use Mail from MAPI-based applications">
 <!ENTITY useMessenger.accesskey           "u">
 <!ENTITY messengerStartPage.label         "Mail Start Page">
-<!ENTITY enableStartPage.label            "When Mail launches, show the Start
Page in the message area">
+<!ENTITY enableStartPage.label            "When Mail launches, show the Start
Page in the message area.">
 <!ENTITY enableStartPage.accesskey        "w">
 <!ENTITY location.label                   "Location:">
 <!ENTITY location.accesskey               "l">

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->mailnews folx.

Comment 2

[Olga]

This bug has even patch ready!

Comment 3

[André Dahlqvist]

Could someone check in this trivial fix?

Comment 4

[racham]

I have noticed multiple notations here.

Robin/Jennifer,

What is the standard here..? Do we need a period/dot at the end of the statement
in the pref dialog panels..?

Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups : I have noticed inconsistencies in the
way statements (associated with checkboxes) have been ended. Can you tell us the
correct format..? Thanks.

Comment 5

[robinf]

I think the style is NOT to include periods after checkbox text labels. For
Edit|Preferences|Mail&Newsgroups, this would mean removing the period for the
checkbox label "Use Netscape Mail as the default mail application."
Jennifer - comments?

Comment 6

[jglick]

Robin is correct. For checkboxes or radio buttons with text that is one 
sentence/phrase, no period. But, if the text for a checkbox or radio button is 
more than one sentence/phrase, then you would use periods.

"Use <productname> Mail as the default mail application" is correct.

Comment 7

[racham]

Takign this one. Patch is trivial. Will check it in when the tree opens for
regular business.

Changing summary to reflect the standard format. 

Comment 8

[racham]

Attachment: patch

Comment 9

[racham]

Fix checked in.

Comment 10

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Verified FIXED using:

Build 2002-09-19-08, Windows 2000.  Mac and Linux don't have this pref.