Re: [Usability]Some UI review bugs filed

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

How about just calling it "Home" and making the icon look like a folder?


On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:34:36PM +0100, 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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