Il giorno lun, 28/01/2008 alle 19.20 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas ha scritto: > Hi Luca > > On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Luca Ferretti wrote: > > > I've just committed little changes to messages from PolicyKit policies > > for Clock applet: > > > > - Configuring the hardware clock requires privileges. > > - Privileges are required to configure the hardware clock. > > > > This to match similar messages from PolicyKit package. > > ...
Sorry for the lag, I've missed this email :-| > I know you're announcing this just as a courtesy, but ... I don't think > the new string is an improvement, unfortunately. It's not really your > fault, because you're following PolicyKit precedent, but really: > "Privileges are required"? That makes no sense except to computer > programmers. To non-programmer English speakers, privileges are things > that can be granted, accorded, withdrawn, stripped, enjoyed, abused, or > reserved, but never required. Well, to be honest, the PolicyKit original strings are something like "Authentication is required ...". > More understandable ways of saying this would be: > * "To set the clock, you need to authenticate as an administrator." > * "To set the clock, you need to authenticate as a member of group > <whatever>." > > Where should I report the bug for fixing these messages in PolicyKit? I > don't see a PolicyKit product or component in bugzilla.gnome.org. PolicyKit bugs are tracked on http://bug.freedesktop.org Adding David in CC... _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
