"Last week the GNOME project released the second edition of their Human Interface Guidelines (HIG 2.0). The HIG is an effort to push a more consistent look and feel on the GNOME desktop, and it's worthwhile reading for other projects as well.
"However, not everything's thought out well in this 168 pages thick document. For example, the HIG defines that menu item names should be a combination of both an application name and a description. The descriptive part is discussed only in general and left mainly to the creative powers of application developers, though..."
