Re: some sheets.in.h inconsistencies

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 28 Apr 2003, Jan-Willem Harmanny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am maintaining the Dutch translation of Dia. While I was testing the
> translation, I noticed some big inconsistencies in the naming of
> objects.
>
> In the main Dia window (where you can select objects you want to create)
> every object has a button, that shows a tooltip when the mouse is
> dragged over it. These tooltips contain the name of the object to be
> created. But those names are very inconsistent. For example:
>
> "Left arrow"
> "A microphone"
> "Create a flow"
>
> instead of "Left arrow", "Microphone", "Flow".
>
> All these strings are located in the *.sheet.in.h files. Would it be a
> good idea to remove the "Create ", "Create an ", and "An " from the
> strings in these files?
>
> I could manage to do this myself, and send a patch to this list. (if i
> find the time of course.) Would that be appreciated?

I vaguely remember seeing such a discussion on the list before, but I don't
remember what style we ended up agreeing on.  It'd certainly be good to
use one style consistently.  Alan, you have any input?  

-Lars

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