Per the "String Announcement Period" request in the July 10th entry on the GNOME 2.15 release planning web page ( http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen ), this is to inform you that I've made a couple slight changes that will require translators to reevaluate the strings for two messages in the gcalctool module.
This is in reference to bug #347770 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347700 I've added a couple of "Note to translators" comments to indicate that the "Bksp" string is an abbreviated form of "Backspace" and that "Clr" is an abbreviated form of "Clear". There is one other possible change related to this bug. The submitter is suggesting that the "Abs" string should be "|x|". I've asked my HCI person to decide whether this should be the case. Please feel free to suggest further changes I can make to the gcalctool code to clarify this situation. The current thinking on why those button labels aren't just "Backspace" and "Clear" is because the width of all the gcalctool buttons is fixed size and determined by the width of the largest label. Making "Bksp" by "Backspace" would make for a very wide calculator. Yes, I realize that is exactly what happens in some locales when some of these strings get localized. On second thoughts, maybe that is exactly what we should just do. Thoughts? Thanks. _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
