On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 11:25 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> 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.
I stand corrected. Thanks Shaun.
Philip
> 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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