[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] [Bug 72304] Re: Deleted items folder name doesn't make sense

2006-12-11 Thread Joachim Noreiko
Sorry -- I mean I've fixed the Deleted items translation to Wastebasket throughout. I don't have the access rights to upload them back to rosetta. Here's the one for gnome-applets. ** Attachment added: PO file for gnome-applets http://librarian.launchpad.net/5350613/gnome-applets-en_GB.po --

[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] [Bug 72304] Re: Deleted items folder name doesn't make sense

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Harris
I can't work out Rosetta so I'll leave someone else to do it. According to the UK translation team Deleted Items is the preferred nomenclature (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation/WordSubstitution), however I don't think it is suitable. For a start, it loses the real-world metaphor, and is

Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] [Bug 72304] Re: Deleted items folder name doesn't make sense

2006-12-11 Thread Ben Goodger
On 11/12/06, Roger Light [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd agree that Deleted items folder isn't the best solution, especially in the example given, but on the other hand as someone who lives in England I'm pretty certain that I've never once said wastebasket. In my opinion the correct term should

[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages

2006-12-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have strings like Button Label|Display. This is an error which will be displayed verbatim in the application(s) concerned. The solution is to remove the prefix Button Label| from your translated version. I have filed this as a

Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages

2006-12-11 Thread Malcolm
On 12/11/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have strings like Button Label|Display. This is an error which will be displayed verbatim in the application(s) concerned. The solution is to remove the prefix Button Label|

Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages

2006-12-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:01, Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have strings like Button Label|Display. This is an error which will be displayed verbatim in the

Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages

2006-12-11 Thread Ben Goodger
On 11/12/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these things.

Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages

2006-12-11 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 00:29 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these

Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages

2006-12-11 Thread Alphax
Bruce Cowan wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 00:29 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to

[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] [Bug 72304] Re: Deleted items folder name doesn't make sense

2006-12-11 Thread Joachim Noreiko
I'm not hugely bothered what it's changed *to* -- I picked 'Wastebasket' because it's what Macs used to use before OS X. 'Deleted Items folder' is wordy and cumbersome, but the worst problem with it is that it completely breaks the trash metaphor: objects in the trash are not deleted, they are in