Re: the word "applet"

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog deaddog org>]

On 2002-12-15(Sun) 00:57:24 +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> > Do people leave them as "applet", or use whatever is already
> > used for applets in Java-land, or come up with something that
> > implies something like "small app" in the language?
> 
> In the Swedish team we use the equivalent of "panel program" as the
> translation of "applet". The rationale is that the word "applet",
> although it is nowadays also present in Swedish, is hard to use and
> looks strange in plural, distinct tense and so on, and in GNOME the use
> of it isn't really the same as in the Java sense anyway.

Same rationale applies to traditional Chinese, as there's no official or
appropriate word representing what "applet" means in GNOME. So the
suggestion '"applet" means "programs that run on panels"' is taken.

Abel
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