Re: Strings change in evolution

[Åsmund Skjæveland <asmund skjaveland bio uio no>]

Andre Klapper skreiv:
> Am Montag, den 28.07.2008, 15:22 +0200 schrieb Stéphane Raimbault:
> > 2008/7/28 Lucian Langa <lucilanga gnome org>
>
> >         -_Prompt when sending HTML mails to contacts that do not want
> >         them
> >         
> >         +_Prompt on sending HTML mail to contacts that do not want
> >         them
> >         
> >
> > The frequently used word is 'message' in Evolution not 'mail'.
> > Why did you replace 'message' by 'mail'?
>
> Because this is the smaller problem if the preferences screen doesn't
> fit on your desktop because of long strings. ;-)
>
> andre

These kinds of hacks are sometimes a necessary evil in a fixed-width 
big-font non-scrolling console, but if the text doesn't fit into a 
graphical window on your particular screen with your particular 
preferred font with your particular resolution with your particular DPI 
setting, making the message 2% shorter is the wrong solution. Making the 
window resizable and/or auto-breaking the text is the correct solution. 
Rephrasing the text may sometimes work, but not by ignoring the 
established rules of terminology.

Just my NOK 0.11.


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Åsmund Skjæveland