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Subject: Re: wording
From: Tim Jansen <ml () tjansen ! de>
Date: 2003-08-18 10:30:44
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On Monday 18 August 2003 12:20, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> A big issue in the recently published usability report was wording. For
> example, users were confused because some apps used "directory" and some
> used "folder".
> 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?
1. Set the standard terminology
2. Change the texts in the apps
> Could we leverage the i18n() function here, to translate "from English
> to English", i.e. so that all strings get translated into KDE standard
> terminology?
No, english texts should be in the source code, everything else just creates
confusion and more work.
bye...
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