Icon name; task-passed-due

Rodney Dawes dobey.pwns at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 08:24:09 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:34 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> I think that proper US English would be "past due"
> 
> Yes, the work 'passed' exists but it has a different use.  Normally used 
> to indicate that a physical object has been passed: I passed the ball; I 
> passed the car.  But, an account is: 'past due'.  This might be 
> different in British English.

Or, the time when a task is due, has passed.

> And since "past due" is a single token, this should be:
> 
> 	task-past_due

There is nothing in the spec requiring single tokens to be
separated with the _ character. It is only stated as one of
the allowed characters.

However, past due is more correct, and I will rename the
icon to task-past-due.

-- dobey




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