On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:27:48PM -0500, Stef Walter wrote: > On 2010-09-07 11:37, Calum Benson wrote: > > > > On 2 Sep 2010, at 22:57, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > > > >> Imagine a language that requires text both before and after the > >> position where the widget is supposed to show up. Example to > >> demonstrate the issue I'm referring to (in English): "Forget this > >> password after [widget-goes-here] of idle time" > > Thanks Wouter for catching this. > > > IIRC (although I can't see exactly where right now) the HIG > > recommends against using such constructs, both for l10n and a11y > > reasons, and recommends always trying to rearrange things into a more > > conventional Label: Widget layout. Re-using your example: > > > > Idle time after which to forget password: [widget] > > Good tip. However this exact wording won't work, since the text is also > a radio button label. Please see the attached image. > > Perhaps text like this would work, although (as you pointed out) it's > far less usable: > > * Lock this keyring after an amount of time: [X ] minutes > * Lock this keyring after idle for an amount of time: > > And in other prompts: > > * Forget this password after for an amount of time: [X ] minutes > * Forget this password after idle for an amount of time. > > Perhaps this whole dialog needs to be redesigned? We would appreciate > any usability advice for this dialog. > > For what it's worth this layout and translation problem is not new to > this release of GNOME, and this string has been translated (although > perhaps suboptimally) many times.
What I do, when there is no other solution, is to find the two split parts, translate them as a whole sentence and then split it on my own i.e. the translation don't necessarily correspond to the source string. Of course when not in hurry I try to report such issues, too. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
