“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…”