[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] KVerbos and the Spanish buttons
From:       arnold.kraschinski () t-online ! de (Arnold Kraschinki)
Date:       2002-06-17 4:40:30
[Download RAW message or body]

Hello,

I heared that some people complained about the Spanish buttons in that 
program. As far as I understood this persons think that this doesn't fit to 
the KDE GUI rules.

At first I think it is a good feature of KDE that the user can change the 
language and then all the menus and buttons are changing too. That's the 
reason why I can understand them in some parts. And the buttons in Spanish 
might be a problem if during an event like linux tag the program is presented 
to someone who cannot speak and doesn't learn the language.

But KVerbos isn't a program like an editor or a game or another common tool. 
It's purpose it to learn Spanish. And the persons who do so know what the 
words on the buttons mean or they have a dictionary to look them up. Someone 
who doesn't want to learn the meaning of these words doesn't want to learn 
Spanish either.

I think it is good to have buttons in Spanish because it uses the language 
the learner wants to learn. Although it's a very small use. So the buttons in 
Spanish are connected to the intention of the program to practice the 
language. It's an educational program. Some people doesn't pay sufficient 
attention to this point. That's why I think there is no need to use i18n in 
this occasion. I think in this case it's less important to follow the KDE GUI 
guidelines than to follow the intention of the program.

As a compromise I will add in further versions the possibility to choose an 
option with buttons that use i18n. But the default value will be Spanish.

Some other problems, e.g. that the programs process doesn't terminate at the 
end of the program and a huge part of the memory it used up, will be fixed 
soon.

Arnold
_______________________________________________
kde-edu-devel mailing list
kde-edu-devel@mail.kde.org
http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]