Re: New power diplay in control center
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Luca Ferretti wrote: > > Put the computer to sleep when on: > [x] AC power and inactive for: [ $TIME v] > [x] Battery power and inactive for: [ $TIME v] > > It certainly will create odd impressions in languages which have dative or accusative declensions. Also, there are likely to be issues in any languages that have SOV [subject-object-verb] word order or postpositions (Chinese or Turkish, for example). It's not particularly good English, for that matter. The labels create dangling prepositions, which are generally frowned upon. Capitalising "battery" is inconsistent with normal English usage. Using a proposition just before the $TIME control also means that the time periods will probably not be translated correctly (because they can't be declined properly without the full context) and again creates issues for languages with postpositions. Put the computer to sleep after a period of inactivity. [x] On AC power: [$TIME v] [x] On battery power: [$TIME v] This is probably the least awkward phrasing in English that stands a chance of being easily translated in most languages. More explicit constructions would be easier to translate but sound considerably more awkward in English. ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
New power diplay in control center
Richard blogged [1] about new UI for power preferences in GNOME 3.0. It was a known change[2], but until now I didn't notice the labels. Put the computer to sleep when on: [x] AC power and inactive for: [ $TIME v] [x] Battery power and inactive for: [ $TIME v] Is this l10n/i18n friendly? At least in Italian language could be a couple of issues (minor, understandable by users, but sub-optimal). The golden rule was "do not break phrases", any suggestion? My own is Sleep if inactive [x] When on AC power after: [ $TIME v] [x] When on battery power after: [ $TIME v] (but then we'll need a category label for other options) [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/11/22/gnome-control-center-in-gnome-3/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Power ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
Google Code-In 2010/2011 reminder
Hi, Today Google opened Google Code-In 2010/2011 for participants. GCI is a "small sibling" of Google Summer of Code for highschool students (13-18yrs) and with much smaller tasks in several fields (like docs, code, translation, etc). The average amount of time to be spent for a task should be about three days. For more info please see http://live.gnome.org/GoogleCodeIn There aren't many GNOME translation tasks in the system so I'm sending a new reminder here. I've added 5 tasks in the morning for translations into Romanian (100 to 300 strings in each task). They were taken by 5 students in an hour. I then added anther 7 tasks. All are taken as of now and I'm working to add new ones. It would be a shame not to use this opportunity to get new contributors. If you want to be a mentor for your language go to http://live.gnome.org/GoogleCodeIn and follow the indications. An example of a task suggestion: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/show/google/gci2010/gnome/t129044425083 -- . ..: Lucian ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
