On 13/09/2005, at 4:04 AM, Sven Neumann wrote:
Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yes, I've struck another string rich in ambiguity, although its
original purpose may well have been to provide information.
#: ../app/tools/gimplevelstool.c:217
msgid "Load Levels"
Now, does this mean, "Load the levels", or "These are levels about
loading"?
It means "Load Levels from Disk". Are you actually doing the
translation without having a look at the user interface? It shouldn't
be too hard to open the Levels tool dialog and check where these
strings are being used. If you don't do that, your translation will
most probably be more confusing than helpful.
It's very difficult, since I'm not a Gnome user. However, I'm also
the only active Vietnamese translator for this project, among others.
My Gnome co-ordinator has been too busy to participate until
recently, but just this last week he's been able to give me some
feedback, which helps a lot.
So context is really needed.
<bangs her head on the keyboard again>
What exactly are you trying to tell us by these remarks?
I'm expressing frustration. I managed to finish the gimp.po file last
night, and will file some bugs today, including some strings which
consisted of a single letter ... and no context.
I find strings like that really frustrating. I think, out of all the
files I've translated for the TP, Gnome, Debian and various single-
program projects, gimp.po has the least context, and thus makes my
task the most difficult.
I'm going on to gimp-gap.po and gimp/po-plugins, which I hope will be
better suited to the task.
BTW, if someone wants to add some translator comments to the GIMP
source code to reduce ambiguity of such strings, I'd very much welcome
such an effort and would take care of applying such a patch as fast as
possible.
Is this really our responsibility? I'm interested.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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