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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDialog & kcmshell
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       2001-01-16 18:14:03
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > kcmshell uses KDialogBase and if you look at a kcmshell (right click
> > on kicker's clock and choose date format for example) you'll see
> > that all buttons have the size of "Use Defaults". This sucks in
> > Germany at last where the i18n() is "Voreinstellungen benutzen".
> 
> Rather then mess with the code, why not just be more creative with the
> German translation?  Think of it this way: if "Voreinstellungen
> benutzen" was the English way of saying "Use Defaults", then we
> wouldn't have made the buttons bigger -- we would have figured out
> another (shorter) way of saying the same thing!
> 
> Surely there must be a German way of getting this idea across without
> using such long words..
> --
> Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
> granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
>             KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop

Personally, I wouldn't know a shorter way. German generally
uses more words to say the same thing.
However, would it be acceptable to use less descriptive
phrases, but have a good (e.g. descriptive) tooltip?

Leon


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