The ellipsis (...) is supposed to indicate that the application may not have enough information to complete the command immediately, and will bring up a dialog box.

Exactly. Some of the menu items in Emplode have an ellipsis following them, but they don't bring up a dialog box or give you a chance to cancel. For example, "Synchronize..." immediately begins synchronizing without giving you any more choices.

Yes, the synchronize command makes a box appear, but that's not what the convention means. The ellipsis should only be present if the box gives you some choices (and a chance to cancel) before doing anything.

The whole idea is that the ellipsis should indicate a "safe" menu item, where nothing happens right away and you've still got a chance to cancel if you want.

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Tony Fabris