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Bug 240162 - No consistency in menu ellipses?
Summary: No consistency in menu ellipses?
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Dialogs&Wizards (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0
Hardware: PC All
: P4 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
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Reported: 2014-01-09 14:34 UTC by unai
Modified: 2014-01-13 12:33 UTC (History)
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Description unai 2014-01-09 14:34:33 UTC 
[ BUILD # : 201401090002 ]
[ JDK VERSION : <1.7.0_25 ]

ACTUAL
There are some menu items that:
1) have ellipses ("...") and open non-modal dialogs. E.g.: "Edit -> Find in
Projects..."
2) have ellipses and open modal dialogs. E.g.: "Refactor -> Copy..."
3) have no ellipses and open non-modal dialogs. E.g.: "Tools -> Options"
4) have no ellipses and open modal dialogs. E.g.: "Help -> About"

EXPECTED
I guess there should be some consistency with the use of ellipses, according to
NB Graphical User Interface guidelines
Comment 1 swpalmer 2014-01-13 12:33:18 UTC 
On OS X this is slightly different.
There is no Help -> About, instead the "About NetBeans" (no ellipsis) is in the "NetBeans" application menu.  It matches other OS X apps by not having an ellipsis.

There is no "Tools -> Options" instead there is the "Preferences..." item in the "NetBeans" application menu.  It has an ellipsis. This is the standard location and text for OS X.

The other items are the same.