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

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 19 août 2008 à 17:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> 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.

+1
I don't think mirror is the right term here.

Claude