Re: [Usability]Some UI review bugs filed

["Gil 'Dolfin' Osher" <dolfin rpg org il>]

Can't they write something like: "The home of menthos"?
That's what I did with Hebrew, because in Hebrew there is no shorter way
to write it.
("Ha'beit shel dolfin")

Gil

Christian Rose wrote:

 >mån 2002-11-18 klockan 23.09 skrev Reinout van Schouwen:
 >
 >
 >>>We just have to decide which is more desireable -
 >>>
 >>>		o gman's Home
 >>>		o Home Folder
 >>>
 >>>
 >>A better solution of course, is to have $HOME be the Desktop by default
 >>and be done with it.
 >>
 >>Furthermore, from l10n perspective, I can tell you: neither is desirable.
 >>If I take Dutch as an example, the translation team eventually went for
 >>'persoonlijke map' (lit. 'personal folder') because the association value
 >>of the home directory with the building you live in just is very small.
 >>[This also means the icon used for home is bad, l10n-wise. I'd rather see
 >>the gdm-user photo there, for instance.]
 >>
 >>
 >
 >And posessives with an %s where the %s might be any name are, as already
 >mentioned in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45360 a long time
 >ago, very bad for localization, since rules for posessives vary between
 >languages, and in some languages the form of the posessive even depends
 >on the posessing noun (the owner).
 >
 >Swedish is an example of the latter. Posessives are written as "<owner>s
 ><item>", but not when the owner is a word or name that already ends with
 >an s-like sound. In those cases it is only "<owner> <item>". So
 >"menthoss hem" is clearly wrong; "menthos hem" would be the correct
 >form. On the same time, "Gegl hem" is wrong, but "Gegls hem" is correct.
 >This is of course impossible to get right without some adaptive code
 >based on automatic on-the-fly word analysis on the %s, and that's of
 >course not a suitable solution.
 >
 >Currently, we are using a hack in the Swedish translation so that this
 >entry only gets translated into the equivalent of "Home Folder" without
 >the user name, but as this problem affects more languages than Swedish
 >it would be nice if the original was fixed so that it doesn't use
 >posessive form.
 >
 >
 >Christian
 >
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