On 2012.06.06 07:50, Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > > I found the following text to be translated in message #1002 in the > pot file > > of konversation in docmessages/extragear-network. > > > > This is a list of all topics that have been set for this channel > while its > > tab was open.\n > > \n > > Duplicates, that is consecutively set topics with identical text > and the > > same author, have been merged into a single list entry. The date > and time > > shown is that of the last time the topic was set.\n > > \n > > When you select a topic in the list, the edit field below it will > receive > > its text. Once you start modifying the contents of the field, > however, the > > list will switch from the regular entry selection mode to allowing > you to > > perform text selection on the entries in case you may wish to > incorporate > > some of their text into the new topic. To return to entry selection > mode and > > a synchronized edit field, undo back to the original text or close > and > > reopen the dialog. > > > > The second sentence, which start with Duplicates is quite unclear > to me. > > Hi, > > Actually, it is not the pure documentation question [1, line 5002]. > > I am not a native speaker, but I interpreted the second sentence as > follows: > > 1. Duplicates are the topics with identical text and the same author, > have been merged into a single list entry. > > 2. The duplicates will be merged into a single list entry. > > 3. The date and time shown for this single entry is the date and time > of the last time the topic was set. > > Hope this helps. However, it will be good to have an opinion of some > native speaker or Eike Hein himself. > > Best regards, > Yuri > > [1] > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/extragear-network/konversation.pot?revision=1298368&view=markup
Yuri - I absolutely agree with your interpretation. (I am a native speaker.) Would it make sense to reword the original as: When there are multiple entries in the list with identical text and author, they have been merged into a single list entry. The date and time shown for that entry are the last date and time the topic was set. Jack