Re: View vs. viewer

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 12 Jan 2003, Christian Neumair wrote:

> Hi there!
> I'm a translator and a bit confused:
> I discovered the string 
> "Hardware Viewer"
> (components/hardware/Nautilus_View_hardware.server.in.in.h:3)
> as well as
> "Hardware view"
> (components/hardware/Nautilus_View_hardware.server.in.in.h:3).
> Same for
> "Text Viewer" and "Text view"
> (components/text/Nautilus_View_text.server.in.in.h:3;
> components/text/Nautilus_View_text.server.in.in.h:4,
> components/text/nautilus-text-view-ui.xml.h:4).
> The German translation of view and viewer is completely different, has
> this string not yet been unified or have they a different meaning?
> I know we already are in a *VERY* deep freeze but I think it's important
> to solve this before 2.2.
> If neccessary, I'm going to write bug reports against nautilus and
> provide patches, but please, look at it as soon as possible.

"Text Viewer" is the string used in the "open with" menu and "Text View" 
is the name of the component. I don't think the name is actually used much 
in the UI, except in a theoretical bonobo component browser.

So, this isn't especially important.

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