Re: Small gnome-user-share UI changes

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 27 janvier 2009 à 15:32 +0000, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> Heya,
> 
> One little change in the gnome-user-share UI, I removed the mentions of
> "Paired" and only used "Bonded". The differences for our usage were
> minimal, and removing "Paired" from the UI means we only need to explain
> Bonded without getting into too much technical details for the end user.
> 
> For the record, the difference between the 2 terms, nicked from the
> Internet:
> "
> Typically, devices must authenticate with each other every time they
> connect to each other. This process is called pairing. However, the
> devices can bond instead. Bonding is similar to pairing except that both
> devices remember the link key for the connection. If the two devices
> ever want to connect to each other again, they don't need to repeat the
> pairing process.
> 
> Information about paired and bonded devices is stored in a device
> database on the local device. If a remote device has bonded with the
> local device, its record remains in the database until it is explicitly
> deleted. If the remote device has paired with the local device but not
> bonded with it, the record is removed when the connection to the remote
> device terminates.
> 
> Remote devices that have bonded with the local device are also called
> trusted devices.
> "

Thanks for the explanation. It would be great to add the first paragraph
as a translator comment for the first occurrence of the term to
translate in file-share-properties.c

Regards,

Claude