Re: Freeze break request: string change in gnome-control-center

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Federico Mena Quintero
<federico ximian com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have this little bug:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381027
>
> Here, the Display capplet says "Mirror Screens" in a checkbox, but it
> says "Cloned Output" in the widget to control the monitor positions.
> Vincent suggested that we make the second string more consistent with
> the first one, and then we can reduce the nerdy terminology as well.
>
> I want to commit the attached patch, which simply changes "Cloned
> Output" for the same "Mirror Screens".  This would have the effect of
> reusing the translations we already have for "Mirror Screens", and it
> works well in English (or semi-well; "Mirrored Screens" may be better in
> the canvas).

I think "Mirrored" is much worse than "Cloned".
Mirroring usually involved flipping left and right, which is not happening here.