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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDialog & kcmshell
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2001-01-17 2:05:14
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, 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!

Oh, yeah, let's use abbreviations everywhere. Why should one need more
space than for the English string anyway?

Peter

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