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release-notes r1097 - in branches/gnome-2-24/help: . C en_GB

Author: pwithnall
Date: Sat Sep 20 17:45:24 2008
New Revision: 1097
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/release-notes?rev=1097&view=rev

Log:
2008-09-20  Philip Withnall  <philip tecnocode co uk>

	* C/rna11y.xml:
	* C/rndevelopers.xml:
	* C/rnmobile.xml:
	* C/rnusers.xml: Fixed a few typos and missing punctuation 
marks,
	and Americanised the spelling.
	* en_GB/en_GB.po: Updated British English translation.



Modified:
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rndevelopers.xml
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnmobile.xml
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/ChangeLog
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/en_GB/en_GB.po

Modified: branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml	(original)
+++ branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml	Sat Sep 20 17:45:24 2008
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 		 </para></listitem>
 		 <listitem><para>
 		  the drawing of gestures is now visible on the screen.
-			<!-- WANT SCREESHOT -->
+			<!-- WANT SCREENSHOT -->
 		 </para></listitem>
 		 <!-- more stuff goes here -->
 		</itemizedlist>
@@ -73,20 +73,20 @@
 		<para>
 			GNOME and its partners have worked hard to improve accessibility and
 			screenreading support for both GNOME &gnomeversion; and many popular third
-			party application.
+			party applications.
 		</para>
 
 		<para>
 			Text-to-speech and braille device support is now vastly improved for
-			Java applications, Openoffice.org, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin,
+			Java applications, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin,
 			GNOME's Help Browser and the GNOME Panel.
-			Users are now made available of unfocused dialogs
+			Users are now made aware of unfocused dialogs
 			when switching to an application.
 		</para>
 
 		<para>
 			There has also been a lot of work to integrate GNOME's screen reading
-			technology with ARIA enabled web browsers. Starting with Mozilla Firefox.
+			technology with ARIA-enabled web browsers, starting with Mozilla Firefox.
 		</para>
 
 		<para>

Modified: branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rndevelopers.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rndevelopers.xml	(original)
+++ branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rndevelopers.xml	Sat Sep 20 17:45:24 2008
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
 		</para>
 		<para>
 			To allow developers to test their applications for compatibility now,
-			new compile time options have been provided:
+			new compile-time options have been provided:
 			G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES for GLib,
 			GTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES for GTK+ and
 			ATK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES for ATK.
 		</para>
 		<para>
-			Simply pass these as compile time flags when building your application
+			Simply pass these as compile-time flags when building your application
 			(e.g. <command>-DG_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES</command>) to ensure that
 			your application is correct.
 		</para>
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 			<title>Further Compatibility Testing</title>
 
 			<para>
-				GLib, GTK+ and associated libraries also provide other compile time
+				GLib, GTK+ and associated libraries also provide other compile-time
 				options that you can use
 				to test compatibility with GTK+ 3.0.
 			</para>

Modified: branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnmobile.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnmobile.xml	(original)
+++ branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnmobile.xml	Sat Sep 20 17:45:24 2008
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
 	<para>
 		The GNOME Mobile platform is the technological heart of numerous Linux-based
 		mobile device platforms including <ulink 
-    url="http://maemo.org/";>Maemo</ulink>, <ulink 
-    url="http://http://alp.access-company.com/";>the ACCESS Linux 
+    url="http://maemo.org/";>Maemo</ulink>, the <ulink 
+    url="http://http://alp.access-company.com/";>ACCESS Linux 
     Platform</ulink>,
-    <ulink url="http://www.limofoundation.org";>the LiMo reference 
+    the <ulink url="http://www.limofoundation.org";>LiMo reference 
     platform</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile";>Ubuntu
     Mobile</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.moblin.org/";>Moblin</ulink> and 
     <ulink url="http://www.pokylinux.org/";>Poky</ulink>.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 					<ulink
 					url="http://www.bluez.org/";><application>BlueZ</application></ulink>
 					&mdash;
-					a modular, complete and standards compliant Bluetooth stack which
+					a modular, complete and standards-compliant Bluetooth stack which
 					includes several graphical utilities for GNOME;
 				</para></listitem>
 				<listitem><para>
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 					<ulink
 					url="http://www.gtk.org";><application>GTK+</application></ulink>
           &mdash; a feature rich cross-platform toolkit for creating graphical
-          user interfaces with an easy to use API.
+          user interfaces with an easy-to-use API.
         </para></listitem>
 				<listitem><para>
 					<ulink
@@ -139,15 +139,15 @@
 				<listitem><para>
           <ulink 
           url="http://cairographics.org/";><application>Cairo</application></ulink>
-          &mdash; a 2D vector-graphics library designed to produce 
+          &mdash; a 2D vector graphics library designed to produce 
           consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of 
           display hardware acceleration when available. Cairo provides a simple 
-          API similar to Postscript.
+          API similar to PostScript.
         </para></listitem>
 			</itemizedlist>
 		</listitem>
 		<listitem><para>Language Bindings</para>
-      <para>All of the GNOME Mobile platform libraries are available through native C APIs, or through high-quality language bindings providing the full power of the libraries with idioms familiar to developers of other high level programming languages. The following languages are fully supported:</para>
+      <para>All of the GNOME Mobile platform libraries are available through native C APIs, or through high-quality language bindings providing the full power of the libraries with idioms familiar to developers of other high-level programming languages. The following languages are fully supported:</para>
 			<itemizedlist>
 				<listitem><para>C</para></listitem>
 				<listitem><para>C++</para></listitem>

Modified: branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml	(original)
+++ branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml	Sat Sep 20 17:45:24 2008
@@ -43,19 +43,19 @@
 		
 		<para>
 			<application>Telepathy</application> provides a common framework for
-			applications to access instant messaging functionality. It can utilise
+			applications to access instant messaging functionality. It can utilize
 			many common protocols including Jabber/XMPP, Google Talk, MSN Messenger
 			and Apple's Bonjour/Rendezvous local network chat.
 		</para>
 
 		<para>
-			Any application is able to utilise the instant messaging session. As
+			Any application is able to utilize the instant messaging session. As
 			well as the Empathy client, GNOME &gnomeversion; provides libraries
 			enabling developers to add presence and status information, transfer files
 			or set up sockets (known as Tubes) for collaboration and games over the
 			Internet.
 			See <xref linkend="rndevelopers.empathy"/> for more information on how
-			this technology can be utilised in your application.
+			this technology can be utilized in your application.
 		</para>
 	</sect2>
 
@@ -79,15 +79,15 @@
 		</figure>
 
 		<para>
-			The panel shows you what task you've been working on and how long for.
+			The panel shows you what task you've been working on and for how long.
 			Clicking on the button allows you to change activity and see what
 			activities you've been working on today. If you like, the timer can
 			stop when your computer goes idle.
 		</para>
 
 		<para>
-			Activities can be categorised by any grouping you choose, be it the
-			type of activity, clients name or how much you dislike it. You can also
+			Activities can be categorized by any grouping you choose, be it the
+			type of activity, client's name or how much you dislike it. You can also
 			view and edit your activity log, insert missing activities and see daily,
 			weekly and monthly graphs to see where you're spending most of your time.
 		</para>
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 		<title>Ekiga 3.0</title>
 
 		<para>
-			Ekiga is a fully featured SIP audio/video conferencing client for
+			Ekiga is a fully-featured SIP audio/video conferencing client for
 			GNOME. As part of GNOME &gnomeversion; we're proud to announce the
 			release of Ekiga 3.0.
 		</para>
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@
 		<!-- SCREENSHOT -->
 
 		<para>
-			As well as a new interface that is centred around your phone book and
+			As well as a new interface that is centered around your phone book and
 			the presence of your contacts, Ekiga 3.0 features SIP presence support,
 			PBX line monitoring, better video codecs support (H.264, H.263,
-			MPEG-4 and Theora), accellerated video and optional fullscreen and
-			many SIP related improvements for robust conferencing.
+			MPEG-4 and Theora), accelerated video and optional fullscreen and
+			many SIP-related improvements for robust conferencing.
 		</para>
 	</sect2>
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
 		<para>
 			Automatic filename completion ("tab" completion) has also been improved
 			in GNOME &gnomeversion;. Completion of filenames in the location bar
-			using the <keycap>Tab</keycap> key is now faster and more predicatable.
+			using the <keycap>Tab</keycap> key is now faster and more predictable.
 			It is also possible to complete any fragment of the path and the
 			interface provides more feedback for when there are no other possible
 			matches available.
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 			</imageobject></mediaobject></screenshot>
 		</figure>
 		<para>
-			Also new is the ability to easy download and install new plugins directly
+			Also new is the ability to easily download and install new plugins directly
 			from the Deskbar repository on the World Wide Web.
 		</para>
 	</sect2>
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@
 		</para>
 		<para>
 			GNOME &gnomeversion; has upgraded its screen resolution controls to make
-			this possible. Utilising the new <emphasis>XRandR 1.2</emphasis>
-			specification from X.org, this dialog enables users to easily set up
+			this possible. Utilizing the new <emphasis>XRandR 1.2</emphasis>
+			specification from X.Org, this dialog enables users to easily set up
 			individual monitors in a number of configurations. Monitors are named
 			and the names appear in the top left corner of the screen for easy
 			identification.
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
 		<note>
 			<title>XRandR 1.2 Driver Compatibility</title>
 			<para>
-				Some X.org video drivers do not currently support XRandR 1.2 and so
+				Some X.Org video drivers do not currently support XRandR 1.2 and so
 				will not be able to take advantage of these features. One such driver
 				is the proprietary nVidia X driver.
 			</para>
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
 			url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec";>Sound
 			Theme and Naming Specification</ulink>.
 			Sound themes can now be installed like icon themes. Using libcanberra also
-			means that an applications alert sounds are less likely to interfere with
+			means that an application's alert sounds are less likely to interfere with
 			your music player or movie player, so you can leave those important alert
 			sounds switched on while watching a fullscreen movie.
 		</para>
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
 			GNOME wants to make your computer look good, which is why we work hard
 			on our themes and artwork. For GNOME &gnomeversion; we ran a competition
 			to collect some of the most intruiging desktop backgrounds our
-			contributors have produced and we've shared our favourites with everyone.
+			contributors have produced and we've shared our favorites with everyone.
 		</para>
 		<figure id="rnusers.backgrounds.fig">
 		 <title>Attractive Backgrounds</title>
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