On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 11:25 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 16:42 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 09:54 -0600, Stef Walter wrote: > > > We're now displaying different strings when unlocking the login keyring: > > > > > > + gkd_prompt_set_title (prompt, _("Unlock Login Keyring")); > > > + > > > + text = _("Enter password for to unlock your login keyring"); > > > + gkd_prompt_set_primary_text (prompt, text); > > > + > > > + if (gkd_login_did_unlock_fail ()) > > > + text = _("The password you use to log into your computer > > > no longer matches that of your login keyring."); > > > + else > > > + text = _("The login keyring did not get unlocked when > > > you logged in to your computer."); > > > + gkd_prompt_set_secondary_text (prompt, text); > > > > Surely it should be "when you logged into your" for the last string? > > Actually, that string is correct. The second one should be > changed to "log in to". See our style guide: > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/gnome-glossary-user-actions.html.en > > I just checked two other style guides, and they both agree > with ours.
I stand corrected. Thanks Shaun. Philip > BEGIN technical mumbo jumbo > In this case "log in" is what's called a phrasal verb. The > word "in" isn't really a preposition; it is inextricably tied > to the word "log". As such, language geeks don't like "in" > being transformed in a very prepositional way to "into". > >
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