Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Jorge González González <aloriel gmail com>]

El dom, 09-08-2009 a las 17:49 +0200, Petr Kovar escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>, Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:30:37 +0200:
> 
> > On 8/7/09, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > > Le lundi 03 août 2009, à 16:53 +0200, Christian Rose a écrit :
> > > > So, as always with localization, you just can't concatenate sentences
> > >  > or pieces of sentences and get a result. It has to be translated as a
> > >  > whole.
> > >
> > > So it seems we have a good argument that "%1$s - %2$s" (with Name &
> > >  GenericName) is wrong.
> > >
> > >  Christian, just out of interest: is it also true for "%1$s (%2$s)" (I
> > >  would expect it is).
> > 
> > Yes. Actually, in the specific case of Swedish "%1$s (%2$s)" could
> > work, but it would be a lot less elegant than the whole string without
> > parentheses, and I can imagine other languages where it would not
> > work. Let's keep it simple and translate it as a whole.
> 
> With regard to the approaches described above, amongst other things,
> there'd be issue with (noun) capitalization. E.g. in Slovak, we translate
> "Rhythmbox Music Player" (that is "Name GenericName") as "Prehrávač hudby
> Rhythmbox" (that is "GenericName Name"), because just as in many other
> languages, unlike English, the "preponed" indeclinable attribute is
> orthographically incorrect, as Luca has implied before in his message that
> dealt with Italian.
> 
> Now, with the approach like "Name - GenericName", we change the
> capitalization of the GenericName, so then we get "Rhythmbox - prehrávač
> hudby", not "Rhythmbox - Prehrávač hudby", which would be orthographically
> incorrect, too. Here, the "- prehrávač hudby" fragment is conceived as a
> description, not as a (generic) name with capital letter(s), hence the
> minuscule. 
It's basically the same for Spanish.

Cheers.
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