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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: wording
From:       Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze () pandora ! be>
Date:       2003-08-19 9:55:03
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Op dinsdag 19 augustus 2003 00:15, schreef Henrique Pinto:
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> > What could we do about this? Could we draw up a list of concepts, with
> > the "KDE standard" terminology to use for each of them?
>
> This is indeed a good idea.
>
> As Tim Jansen pointed in another message, two things need to be done.
> For the standard terminology, we may, at a first moment, set up a wiki
> based interface where people would colaborate on the elaboration of the
> document. After it is "stabilized" (i. e., we would have already agreed on
> many of the basic issues), it would be moved to developer.kde.org, as a
> separate document ("KDE Naming Guidelines") or as part of the style guide.
> Unfortunately, I don't have how to set up this wiki system. Could anyone do
> this?

There exists already a wiki: http://hannibal.lr-s.tudelft.nl/kdeusability/

> We should also contact the documentation team, as this issue is highly
> related.

I agree.

> For Tim's second point, the main issue is that it could overload the
> translators. In order to try to avoid this, we should contact the
> internalization team and schedule with them the most appropriate time for
> the modifications. It should also be noted that that would be an incredible
> amount of work. Even though standarizing strings is a relatively easy task,
> there are lots and lots of strings in KDE's codebase. And the documentation
> team may also have to "standarize" the already written documents...

IMO we should have such a list for all languages (based on the english one) 
and this lists should be integrated into kbabel.

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