Re: gnome-about strings

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:55, Christian Rose wrote:
> ons 2003-08-06 klockan 23.33 skrev Luis Villa:
> > So, some time ago I said I was going to trim down the gnome-about
> > strings, so translators should not translate them. I then forgot about
> > that. :/ So, if it's OK with i18n, I can commit shorter/better strings
> > shortly. [The goal is to not affect content, but to make them shorter
> > and hence easier to read/translate, since currently the about box
> > scrolls the informative text too quickly to read and the names too
> > slowly to ever see a significant fraction of them.]
> 
> It really would help to see the patch, to know how many and which
> messages are affected and how the proposed messages would look like, I
> think.

Sure. Patch is attached.

Luis

--- gnome-version.xml.in.in.~1.1.~	2003-07-28 23:33:17.000000000 -0400
+++ gnome-version.xml.in.in	2003-08-08 09:22:31.000000000 -0400
@@ -9,21 +9,22 @@
     <!-- NOTE TO AUTHORS: Do not put anything in the following paragraphs that
     will be substituted by the configure script. Otherwise you will break
     the translations. -->
-    <_p>Welcome to the GNOME Desktop. GNOME is a Free, usable, powerful,
-accessible desktop environment for the Unix-like family of operating
-systems.</_p>
-    <_p>GNOME includes most of what you see on your computer, including the
-file manager, menus, and many applications, like the web browser. GNOME also
-includes a development platform to allow programmers to create complex and
-powerful new applications.</_p>
-    <_p>GNOME is developed by an active community of volunteers who want to
-provide a desktop and a suite of user friendly applications. Because GNOME
-needs documentors, translators, and many other types of people, virtually
-anyone, with or without coding skills, can contribute to GNOME.</_p>
+    <_p>GNOME is a Free, usable, stable, accessible desktop
+environment for the Unix-like family of operating systems.</_p>
+    <_p>GNOME includes most of what you see on your computer,
+including the file manager, web browser, menus, and many
+applications.</_p>
+    <_p>GNOME also includes a complete development platform for
+applications programmers, allowing the creation of powerful and
+complex applications.</_p>
+    <_p>GNOME's focus on usability and accessibility, regular release
+cycle, and strong corporate backing make it unique among Free Software
+desktops.</_p>
+    <_p>GNOME's greatest strength is our strong community. Virtually
+anyone, with or without coding skills, can contribute to making GNOME
+better.</_p>
     <_p>Hundreds of people have contributed code to GNOME since it was started
 in 1997; many more have contributed in other important ways, including
-translations, documentation, and quality assurance. The following names are an
-incomplete list of those who have contributed substantially and made GNOME
-possible.</_p>
+translations, documentation, and quality assurance.</_p>
   </description>
 </gnome-version>