Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB
Hi, On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:28 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: > I'm totally for it. > > They were bugs against gnome-vfs but they were closed WONTFIX IIRC. > > So if gnome-vfs is not going to be fix, you can : > - fix each program (that's what i did > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-system-monitor/branches/gnome-2-14/src/util.c?r1=1159&r2=1205 > ) > - fix the translation if you know for sure that kB/MB/GB are misused. Since when do the translators do such decisions on their own? The only reasonable thing to do at this point is to bring up the question on desktop-devel-list and wait for a decision. Sven ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB
Hi, On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:28 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: > So if gnome-vfs is not going to be fix, you can : > - fix each program (that's what i did > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-system-monitor/branches/gnome-2-14/src/util.c?r1=1159&r2=1205 > ) I would even rate that patch as wrong. Users should not be confronted with binary prefixes. Doing so is considered legacy behavior. So this patch should divide by multiples of thousands and use kB, MB and GB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefixes#Usage_notes There are certainly some cases where binary prefixes are not avoidable and perhaps it would be a good idea to use the correct symbols then. But I think it would be wrong to enforce binary prefixes on the GNOME users when it comes to file sizes. But seriously, this discussion should be taken elsewhere. Sven ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB
Sven Neumann skrev: > Since when do the translators do such decisions on their own? The only > reasonable thing to do at this point is to bring up the question on > desktop-devel-list and wait for a decision. You are totally correct. If we are going to use IEEE 1541, that should be on a global scale. Yes, that means the whole GNOME, no point in letting some applications use it. That would just confuse people. Can someone pipe the question to desktop-devel? -- Daniel Nylander (CISSP, GCUX, GCFA) http://www.DanielNylander.se Stockholm, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 14:46 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:34 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:17 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > > > > > You are correct, it's more correct but maybe not appropriate. > > > As I translator, I have started to notice that more and more > > > applications start to use this new convention. For the beginning I was a > > > bit negative but started to like it more and more. > > > > I think consistency is most important here. So it would probably be a > > good idea to bring this up on desktop-devel-list. If an agreement can be > > reached that applications should use the IEEE_1541 symbols, then it > > would be appropriate to file bug reports for this. > > I remember it was discussed some years ago in gnome-network list[1], but > documentation team had a recommendation written by that days[2]. > > Anyway, the situation has changed since then. I agree we should use > IEEE 1541. > > [1] > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-network-list/2003-December/msg00011.html > [2] > http://web.archive.org/web/20040603162403/http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/x14800.html 1) The Style Guide is not infallible. That section probably predates IEEE 1541, or at least predates anybody in Gnome caring about it. So we can consider that information outdated and amend it. 2) That section doesn't actually specify what "kilo" means. So while it does say "48 Kilobit" and "48 Kb" (should be "kb", grr), it notably does not say to abuse "kilo" to mean 1024. It could be interpreted as saying that we should always present multiples in proper SI multiples. 3) The abbreviations will never be widely used or known if nobody takes the initiative to use them. -- Shaun ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB
> 3) The abbreviations will never be widely used or known if nobody takes > the initiative to use them. We have been using them at the the Spanish GTP at least since I joined, in 2004. -- Jorge González González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Weblog: http://aloriel.no-ip.org Fotolog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aloriel ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
String additions to 'rhythmbox.RHYTHMBOX-0_10'
This is an automatic notification from status generation scripts on: http://l10n.gnome.org/. There have been following string additions to module 'rhythmbox.RHYTHMBOX-0_10': + "Example Path:" Note that this doesn't directly indicate a string freeze break, but it might be worth investigating. ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
