Re: [Usability] Terminology change: Reduce Newism

[Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol ikhlas com>]

Christian Neumair menulis:
> We usually use actions as menu items, which are a bit of commands, e.g.
> "insert": "hey, computer, insert that!" or "save as": "hey, computer,
> save that!") which I really like because infinitive/imperative verbal
> forms (the same in English) are very pictorial pictorial. Now we've got
> several exceptions: "New Window", "New Folder", etc. I'll refer to this
> terminology as "Newism".
> I recently noted that a Nautilus string was changed to "Create
> Folder"/"Create Launcher" which I prefer a lot over "New Folder"/"New
> Launcher", because they begin with a verb and therefore increase
> consistency. Same for "New Window" that has been replaced by "Open New
> Window", which doesn't crop the "New", but at least makes the string
> more pictorial by adding a verb at the beginning.

about this "New" only string...
My language (Malay) has difficulty to translate it...

"New" is "Baru"
"New Window" is "Tetingkap Baru"

by cropping it, 'New -> Window'
become 'Baru -> Tetingkap' which is grammatically wrong.




> Nautilus introducted that terminology, I think it would be a good thing
> if the rest of GNOME (and hopefully, even GTK+, in it's fileselector)
> followed it, too.
> Examples of Newism can be found in Epiphany where we have "New Window",
> "New Tab" and "New Bookmark".
>
> regs,
>  Chris


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