Start putting some stuff together for the style guide.

Vocabulary

• command-line, not commandline

• GNOME, not Gnome or gnome

• GSettings and gsettings, depending on which one you mean

• <app>Application Name</app> and <cmd>applicationname</cmd>

  • example: <app>Files</app> and <cmd>nautilus</cmd>

• wireless access point, not base station (see Wikipedia)

• check, not tick

Actions

• select menu items

• open dialogs

• press buttons

• choose… something?

Style

• use simple English wherever possible

• no Latin (cf., e.g., etc., i.e.)

• no contractions
• no genetive

• "use <link> to do something", not "to do something, see <link>"

• use … (ellipses) instead of ..., create ellipses using Ctrl+Shift+U+2026