On 18 Aug 2008, at 03:30, Jedy Wang wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 10:01 +0100, Ghee Teo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I guess this more of a question for Calum, >> Why are we creating many more string changes that is different from >> the >> community? >> I thought there was at one point we try to keep minimum changes to >> menu >> structure and I guess minimizing menu strings also help us not to >> create >> to many patches and hence L10N efforts etc. > I think this is because some strings are not very accurate and > meaningless. I will try to upstream all string related internal patch > but it will take time and I think some of them will not be accepted.
Right. Ideally we'd have got agreement on all the strings upstream first before including them in our spec, but realistically that's never going to happen. (I've tried that before, on two different occasions.) I agree that in future, we should probably try to manage this better. We should perhaps set ourselves a target of having no more than (say) 10-20 differences from the community strings on our menus, and just live with the community versions of all the other menu items and tooltips until we can get them improved upstream. That way we can at least be sure that the poorest examples won't be visible on our desktop. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
