Re: String changes in gnome-keyring

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 16:42 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 09:54 -0600, Stef Walter wrote:
> > We're now displaying different strings when unlocking the login keyring:
> > 
> > +       gkd_prompt_set_title (prompt, _("Unlock Login Keyring"));
> > +
> > +       text = _("Enter password for to unlock your login keyring");
> > +       gkd_prompt_set_primary_text (prompt, text);
> > +
> > +       if (gkd_login_did_unlock_fail ())
> > +               text = _("The password you use to log into your computer
> > no longer matches that of your login keyring.");
> > +       else
> > +               text = _("The login keyring did not get unlocked when
> > you logged in to your computer.");
> > +       gkd_prompt_set_secondary_text (prompt, text);
> 
> Surely it should be "when you logged into your" for the last string?

Actually, that string is correct.  The second one should be
changed to "log in to".  See our style guide:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/gnome-glossary-user-actions.html.en

I just checked two other style guides, and they both agree
with ours.

BEGIN technical mumbo jumbo
In this case "log in" is what's called a phrasal verb.  The
word "in" isn't really a preposition; it is inextricably tied
to the word "log".  As such, language geeks don't like "in"
being transformed in a very prepositional way to "into".


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Shaun McCance
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