Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

2009-02-25 Thread Calum Benson

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:16 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 13:52 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> > 
> > So, my suggestion:
> > 
> >   The application launcher "%s" has not been marked as trusted. If you do
> >   not know this application launcher's source, launching it may be unsafe.
> 
> This looks good to me, can i have another string freeze approval please?

Hmm, guess I've come to this party too late, but I do have one slight
concern about the use of "Trusted".  That term has a specific meaning on
at least one GNOME-based secure desktop I'm aware of (Trusted Solaris--
which is the only one I've used, but I wouldn't be surprised if it
applied to others, too).

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Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

2009-02-25 Thread Calum Benson

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:00 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> Hmm, what do you propose to use then? Using "Executable" in the UI
> sounds pretty lame, its an implementation detail after all.

Well, I'll ask our trusted desktop guys today first, to see if they
think it's even an issue--maybe the context is sufficiently different
that they'll be fine with it the way it is.

If it's an issue for them, the best I can think of right now is maybe to
couch it in terms of "safety" instead of "trustworthiness", e.g.
something like:

Unsafe application launcher

The creator of "%s" did not mark it as safe to launch. Before
continuing, you are advised to check that the launcher came from
a reputable source.

[Launch Anyway] [Mark as Safe] [Cancel]

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Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

2009-02-27 Thread Calum Benson

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:35 +, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:00 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, what do you propose to use then? Using "Executable" in the UI
> > sounds pretty lame, its an implementation detail after all.
> 
> Well, I'll ask our trusted desktop guys today first, to see if they
> think it's even an issue--maybe the context is sufficiently different
> that they'll be fine with it the way it is.

I haven't had any response, so you might as well go ahead with the
wording you'd already decided upon.  We can always file a bug later if
it turns out to be an issue.

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gnome-themes branched

2009-04-15 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.26.  Feature development should  
continue on trunk, gnome-2-26 is for translations and bugfixes only.


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[gnome-themes] Created branch gnome-2-28

2009-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
The branch 'gnome-2-28' was created pointing to:

 2f7a224... Post-release version bump.

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gnome-themes branched for 2.28

2009-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
Have just created gnome-2-28 branch of gnome-themes, for bugfixes and  
translations only.  Development will continue on master.


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[gnome-themes] Created branch gnome-2-30

2010-04-20 Thread Calum Benson
The branch 'gnome-2-30' was created pointing to:

 26ef96f... Fix doap file

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[gnome-themes] Created branch gnome-2-32

2010-08-02 Thread Calum Benson
The branch 'gnome-2-32' was created pointing to:

 ab47cc2... Remove empty "gtk-themes/Clearlooks" directory

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Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-07 Thread Calum Benson

On 2 Sep 2010, at 22:57, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:

> Imagine a language that requires text both before and after the position
> where the widget is supposed to show up. Example to demonstrate the
> issue I'm referring to (in English): "Forget this password after
> [widget-goes-here] of idle time"

IIRC (although I can't see exactly where right now) the HIG recommends against 
using such constructs, both for l10n and a11y reasons, and recommends always 
trying to rearrange things into a more conventional Label: Widget layout.  
Re-using your example:

Idle time after which to forget password: [widget]

But you could certainly argue that the resultant wording is often a little more 
forced, and the resultant layout may still not be possible to replicate in 
every language anyway.

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Re: gnome-screensaver UI review changes

2006-02-15 Thread Calum Benson


On 15 Feb 2006, at 12:38, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:


-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

William Jon McCann wrote:

The translatable string is _("%s on %s") and it will have a  
comment for

translators that says:
Translators: this is "username on hostname"


'username on hostname' is a potential minefield for L10n teams - is  
this

really required ?


The main point of the comment in the UI review was to have the  
hostname visible /somewhere/ in the window (so that someone who walks  
up to a locked display can still find out the hostname, which is  
quite often useful)... on reflection I'd agree that "username on  
hostname" probably wasn't the best suggestion though.


If anyone can suggest any nice, l10n-friendly ways to do this, feel  
free-- otherwise, we should probably just file it as a bug and fix it  
in 2.16 when we've had more time to think about it.


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Re: gnome-screensaver UI review changes

2006-02-15 Thread Calum Benson
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:15 +0100, Danilo Ĺ egan wrote:

> Perhaps:
> 
> Row 1: username
> Row 2: hostname
> 
> (Without the "Row %d:" labels, of course ;)
> 
> I don't know how would it affect the UI or would this be clean enough.

Yeah, this was one of the suggestions we had yesterday... I just thought
it might make the dialog look a little "stretched out", which is why I
suggested trying to get them both on the same row instead.  Always
difficult to say without seeing it for real, though :)

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Re: [Usability] Mini UI reviews

2006-02-16 Thread Calum Benson


On 16 Feb 2006, at 14:43, Victor Osadci wrote:


Any chance of having a review for Epiphany ? There was a lot of  
work on
the bookmarks system, toolbars, preferences, etc., and a review  
would be

quite useful for the upcoming release, as well as for the next
development cicle.


/Possibly/ too late, I would say... it would have to be done on  
Monday now, which is a full week after the string freeze.  Cc'ing  
gnome-docs and gnome-i18n though (and snipping usability list), to  
see if they would consider it too late.


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Re: [Usability] Mini UI reviews

2006-02-20 Thread Calum Benson


On 19 Feb 2006, at 23:06, Victor Osadci wrote:



I take this as a 'Yes, as long as you behave' :-) , if so, let's get
this going. Is Monday OK? Calum?


Ok, sure... I'm happy to have the review anyway, and the rest of you  
can decide amongst yourselves whether you want to accept the changes  
for 2.14 or not :)  The stuff that's left over can always just be  
dealt with in the next release.



Also, could someone send that 'official' mail with the date and  
time of

the review?


Done.


I have prepared some screenshots of epiphany HEAD for those who
might need them: http://xhtml.md/misc/epiphany/ui-review/


Cool, thanks.

Cheeri,
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gnome-themes branched

2006-03-30 Thread Calum Benson
I've just branched gnome-themes in preparation for 2.15 development
work; branch name is gnome-2-14 as usual.

Vague plans for 2.15: weed out some sucky themes, update some funky
ones, add SVG versions of high contrast themes, implement a low contrast
gtk engine to cut down the number of icon files that need maintaining.

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Re: Announcing new strings for new file in the orca module: orca.desktop.in

2006-08-08 Thread Calum Benson

On 6 Aug 2006, at 13:46, Willie Walker wrote:

> Hey All:
>
> With the acceptance of Orca into GNOME 2.16 (THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR  
> YOUR
> SUPPORT), we've created a new orca.desktop.in file.  This file  
> lives in
> the top level directory of the orca module and contains the following
> strings:
>
> _Name=Orca Screen Reader and Magnifier
> _Comment=Assistive Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired People

Don't want to be a pain, but any chance you would consider a more  
actively-worded comment (as per the HIG), like the one we suggested  
for gnopernicus here?

http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityTeam/Menu

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Re: Announcing new strings for new file in the orca module: orca.desktop.in

2006-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 07:30 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> I actually modeled the strings after Gnopernicus:

Probably, but the gnopernicus comment wasn't very good either ;)  (Hence
the reason I drew up that proposal page in the first place... many
applications' comments aren't very good, or don't follow the
admittedly-scant HIG guidelines.)

> It's no biggy for me - all I have to do is write the English
> version.  How about:
> 
> _Comment=Present on screen information as speech or braille, or magnify
> the screen

Sounds reasonable, although should be "on-screen" I think.

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gnome-themes branched for 2.16

2006-10-06 Thread Calum Benson
gnome-themes has been branched for 2.16, gnome-2-16 branch is now for
bugfixes and translations only.

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gnome-themes branched

2007-04-09 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.20; translations and bugfixes only
on gnome-2-18 branch please.

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Re: String change in evolution

2007-08-07 Thread Calum Benson
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 19:17 +0530, Johnny Jacob wrote:
> String "Notifies the user with tray icon and a notify message whenever
> a new message is arrived" is changed to "Notifies the user with tray
> icon and a notify message whenever a new message has arrived." in
> plugins/mail-notification/org-gnome-mail-notification.eplug.xml
> 
> The string is displayed in the description section in the plugin
> manager (Edit->Plugins)

"Notify message" in the new string should more correctly be
"notification message", I think.  And if you're going to say "*a*
notification message", you should probably also say "*a* tray icon", it
just reads better.

Also, do we really call it the "tray" in GNOME?  I thought its official
name was the (status) notification area.

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Re: Replace 'side pane' by 'sidebar' in Nautilus

2007-08-09 Thread Calum Benson

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:32 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Shouldn't all GNOME applications use the same name for equivalent UI
> elements? Currently, we have:
> 
> Evince: Side Pane
> Eye of GNOME: Side Pane
> Gedit: Side Pane
> Nautilus: Sidebar (Proposed)
> Totem: Sidebar
> 
> Personally, I prefer "Pane" instead of "Bar". IMO, "Bar" is something
> more suitable for menubar or toolbar (ah, and of course to drink some
> beers! :-P)

The (currently offline) GNOME Documentation Style Guide is the final
arbiter, and for now it says "side pane".

http://web.archive.org/web/20061206012720/developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html

Until somebody updates the style guide, calling it anything else is a
bug :)

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Re: String change in Evolution.

2007-08-20 Thread Calum Benson

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 18:19 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:

> This is a waste of time for translators which have to review many fuzzy
> strings, most of them being simply corrected typos.
> 
> This is a shame and harming the whole GNOME project.
> 
> Sorry for you, folks by Novell that try to do your best, but you simply
> don't have the sufficient English level, nor have I !

Pat Costello & co. (when they were the GNOME docs guys at Sun) always
used to advocate that a core team of docs writers ought to review every
user visible string that made it into GNOME, in much the same way as we
tried to review every UI before major releases at one point.  Massive
amount of not-very-interesting work, of course, but it could probably
make a great difference to the perceived quality of our desktop.

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gnome-themes branched

2007-10-15 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.21/22; the gnome-2-20 branch is
now for translations and bugfixes only please.

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Re: Changed name and location for AT capplet

2008-02-14 Thread Calum Benson

On 9 Feb 2008, at 20:46, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> * Renamed launcher as "Accessibility Technologies" (not Tecnology)
> * Renamed dialog title as "Accessibility Technologies Preferences"
> * Moved to main menu, it was the only one capplet under
> Prefs->Accessibility

I'm confused, didn't we decide to s/Accessibility/Universal Access a  
while ago?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376324

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Re: Changed name and location for AT capplet

2008-02-14 Thread Calum Benson

On 14 Feb 2008, at 18:23, Calum Benson wrote:

>
> On 9 Feb 2008, at 20:46, Luca Ferretti wrote:
>
>> * Renamed launcher as "Accessibility Technologies" (not Tecnology)
>> * Renamed dialog title as "Accessibility Technologies Preferences"
>> * Moved to main menu, it was the only one capplet under
>> Prefs->Accessibility
>
> I'm confused, didn't we decide to s/Accessibility/Universal Access a
> while ago?

Never mind, I guess we never decided to change the term "Assisitive  
Technologies"... but it does re-introduce one of the problems that we  
switched to "Universal Access" for in the first place. (Namely that in  
English locales, some people didn't really like "Accessibility" being  
the first item in the list).

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gnome-themes branched

2008-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.23; the gnome-2-22 branch is
now for translations and bugfixes only please.

Cheeri,
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Re: Freedesktop sound theme support in gnome-control-center trunk

2008-07-28 Thread Calum Benson


On 28 Jul 2008, at 00:54, Bastien Nocera wrote:


- "Play system beep sound" (this enables the audible bell in X)

Ideas for better strings welcome.



OS X calls this the "alert" sound-- perhaps we could do the same?  (Or  
"desktop alert", or "system alert"-- but having to put "system" in  
front of a noun in the GUI is usually a bad sign...)


Incidentally, from the screenshot alone[1] I'm a little confused...  
are the "system beep" checkbox and the "audible bell" list entry  
controlling the same thing, and if so, why do I get to control it in  
two different places, in two different ways, with two different names?


Incidentally again, always a little disappointing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 aren't cc'ed on bugs like this so we at least have the chance to  
give some input from the start... nothing personal, just a gentle  
reminder to everyone :)


Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=115033&action=view

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gnome-themes branched

2008-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.24.  Feature development should  
continue on trunk, gnome-2-24 is for translations and bugfixes only.


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Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

2008-11-06 Thread Calum Benson


On 6 Nov 2008, at 10:37, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:



Maybe you could contact the GNOME Art team. They could make some
suggestions. Don't focus on the "Gnome" idea. Few people think of  
small
mythical beings when they think of GNOME. Unfortunately, I don't  
have a

good suggestion. Some other form of "G", maybe?


In my vague memory, some GNOME 1.x versions used to use a flower
logo at the main menu. And after some search, I've found some
evidences:


Ah yes.  During our GNOME 1.2 usability study, some of our  
participants memorably asked "what's the fried egg for?" :)


Other than that, a (well-designed) flower might be a pretty good  
call-- it has some history in GNOME, and it symbolises all those  
hippie values that are shared by the open source community :)


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gnome-themes branched for 2.10

2005-03-07 Thread Calum Benson
gnome-themes is now branched for 2.10.

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Re: String review

2005-09-22 Thread Calum Benson


On 21 Sep 2005, at 19:49, Christian Persch wrote:


To fix this, I think we need:
- a String Guidelines addendum to the HIG. The HIG already tells us  
what

capitalisation to use in which circumstances; we need a complete style
guide;


I'd certainly be quite happy for the HIG to include a list of common  
alert messages... we only give one or two now, and they're only  
really given as examples, rather than "please use this verbatim if it  
fits your situation".


Perhaps we could set up an area on http://live.gnome.org/ 
UsabilityTeam or (http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject) to list  
the messages that people most want to see, and decide on their  
wording before adding them to the HIG?  Seems like it would get a bit  
unwieldy to do it in a bug report.


Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: String review

2005-09-22 Thread Calum Benson


On 22 Sep 2005, at 12:14, Calum Benson wrote:



On 21 Sep 2005, at 19:49, Christian Persch wrote:



To fix this, I think we need:
- a String Guidelines addendum to the HIG. The HIG already tells  
us what
capitalisation to use in which circumstances; we need a complete  
style

guide;



I'd certainly be quite happy for the HIG to include a list of  
common alert messages... we only give one or two now, and they're  
only really given as examples, rather than "please use this  
verbatim if it fits your situation".


(Which isn't to say I don't think a library of common alerts/errors  
would be even better, but either way we still need to decide what  
should be in it.)


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gnome-themes branched

2005-10-03 Thread Calum Benson
I've just branched gnome-themes for 2.12.  You know the drill; bugfixes
and translations only to gnome-2-12 branch (and HEAD) from now on
please, and funky stuff to HEAD only.

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Re: gnome-themes branched

2005-10-03 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:54 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> I've just branched gnome-themes for 2.12.

Well okay, for 2.13, but the branch is called gnome-2-12 :)

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