On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Stavros Giannouris <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 January 2011 20:55, Nick Schermer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Stavros Giannouris <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello. >> > >> > I'm trying to describe the two terms in the X Window System context so >> > that >> > I can provide good translations for them, but I'm a bit confused; >> > I have some idea in my mind about this but I can quite put it down in >> > writing, or it is too lengthy to be accepted in the UI. >> > >> > Can someone help me with this, or at least point me to somewhere not too >> > techical to read? >> >> It is indeed a bit confusing, and the difference might not be obvious >> for most users (doesn't need to be), but this is how it works (at >> least in Gtk+/Gdk): >> >> The X server opens 1 display, a display contains >= 1 screens and a >> screen contains >= 1 monitors. In real life you'd hardly see a setup >> with > 1 screen and > 1 monitor; for example nvidia uses multiple >> screens for each output (each containing a single monitors with the >> size of the screen) and randr (intel/nouveau/..) 1 screen with >> multiple monitors for each output. Another detail is that monitors can >> overlap each other, screens cannot. >> >> Now (I assume you are translating this) in case of the panel; when a >> display setup uses monitors (randr), each output will have a name >> (LVDS, VGA1, DVI1) which is used by the panel, so you'd hardly see >> Monitor %d in the panel preferences. >> >> Screens on the other hand cannot have names, so there the users always >> sees Screen %d. >> >> If I were you I'd just translate Monitor and Screen as-is; normal >> users don't see a difference; but tech-users might know and (that's >> the reason the panel uses different names for both) it provides useful >> info in bug reports. >> >> Hope that helps a bit. >> >> Nick >> > It helps a lot, thanks! > > The problem is that the translation is the same for both words in Greek, but > if the possibility to see both of them in the preferences is minimal, then > it should be fine to use it.
You never see both at the same time in the output selector; the panel cannot handle the case > 1 screen && > 1 monitor. Nick _______________________________________________ Xfce-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n
