Re: View vs. viewer

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

These terms are in the User Guide glossary
(http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.0/glossary-1.html):

view
A Nautilus component that enables you to display a folder in a
particular way. For example, Nautilus contains an icon view which
enables you to display the contents of a folder as icons. Nautilus also
contains a list view which enables you to display the contents of a
folder as a list. 

viewer component
A Nautilus component that enables you to display a particular type of
file in the view pane. A viewer component might add menu items that are
relevant to the file type to the Nautilus menus. A viewer component
might also enable you to use the Nautilus zoom buttons to change the
size of the item in the view pane.

Hope this helps.
Eugene

John Fleck wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:55, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> For what it's worth, the view/viewer distinction isn't included in the
> style guide glossary, though it does refer to "view pane" as the
> right-hand bit in Nautilus:
> http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html
> Cheers,
> John
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