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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDialog & kcmshell
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2001-01-17 9:11:45
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On Wednesday 17 January 2001 09:35, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:57:47 -0700, 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..
>
> Well, as the Greek coordinator tells me their translation for "Use
> Defaults" is "Xrisimopoiisi Prokathorismenwn". Please face it: the
> average word length of many languages is much bigger than the English
> one. And there is no way to get 50 languages to crop their translations
> until they fit in too small a space.

I think we can forget this discussion now or drop the whole idea of geometry 
management and switch back to hardcoded widget sizes. Please make the buttons 
simply use the size they need as we do it all over KDE.

Bye,
Matthias

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