On Monday 19 Jul 2004 10:03 pm, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > The audio mixer has fixed sized widgets. It is hard to translate > the strings while fitting them into the widgets. For instance, the > string "<none>" fits into the lower buttons, but "<nada>" is a bit > wider, and overflows.
Is there any alternative text that might convey the right sort of meaning? I already had to change the English text from the intended "<no plugin>" to "<none>" because of the overriding requirement to fit in a very narrow space. You could also consider changing or omitting the angle brackets. I could try restoring stretchability to the widgets, but I think at the moment they try to grab a bit too much padding that I haven't really worked out how to disable, and so the whole thing ends up rather too wide. It's a tricky one. You can see why commercial audio software usually seems to use carefully pre-drawn bitmaps of the texts used in space-sensitive widgets. Of course, the other thing that's typically done is to abbreviate the texts. > Worse are the overflows for "In #", > translated into "Entrada #". Yes, but you see this really is a case where allowing the full text would make the widget too wide. My offhand metric for the widths of these mixer strips is that I should be able to fit 16 faders, two submasters and a master onto my 1280 pixel wide screen. It would be nice to have an option to permit more space if it's available, but the default really does have to be as tightly packed as possible. Also, again, this is a case where the English had to lose out as well; it was originally "Input". I really don't know what to suggest. > I have translated "triggered segments" into "segmentos > activados", and "to trigger" into "activar" in this context; I > prefer that word instead the usual "gatillo", or "disparador" with > more warlike connotations. Fine by me. I wasn't thinking of guns anyway. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
