Bug#763357: mate-desktop: Confusing translation (de) in Mate Desktop Environment

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: tag -1 wontfix

Dear G.Heine,

I checked upon your reported issue.

On  Mo 29 Sep 2014 18:49:42 CEST, G. Heine wrote:

Package: mate-desktop
Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n

Dear Maintainer,


bug report because I don't know where MATE's localization is based. Sorry.

first of all I don't know whether mate-desktop is the correct package for this

 Obviously the below discussion has already been lead elsewhere earlier [1].

Now for the bug: starting with Mate 1.8 the German translation is confusing.
For years "desktop" has been translated with "Arbeitsfläche" in most systems,
not only Linux. Mate did the same until and including 1.6.

Starting with 1.8 the corresponding folder is no longer called ~/Arbeitsfläche

Note that MATE itself does not handle the ~/Desktop folder directly, but uses xdg-user-dirs for it.

but ~/Schreibtisch. You can also find "Aussehen des Schreibtischs anpassen"
connected to "Erscheinungsbild" (appearance). In other places it is still
"Arbeitsfläche": you use "Arbeitsflächenumschalter" in the panel to switch
between workplaces.
The worst is using Caja: you click "Arbeitsfläche" under "Orte" (places) and

icon mode) or "Schreibtisch" (in text mode).

it will open ~/Schreibtisch while the title above calls it "Arbeitsfläche" (in

From the quoted post [1] I get that desktop is translated as "Schreibtisch" nowadays and "workspace" (my desktop normally has four of those) is translated as "Arbeitsbereich" or "Arbeitsfläche". So: the "Schreibtisch" (desktop) is used for all "Arbeitsflächen" (workspaces). Personally, I agree with you that the work "Schreibtisch" is a rather "unglücklich gewählter Begriff".

I noticed this behaviour in Mate 17 in May and it is still there in Debian
Testing in September.
This is a somewhat confusing and unnecessary change for the worse. In my
opinion you should stick with "Arbeitsfläche" or (if the "ä" after decades of
computer technology still causes problems) change it to "Schreibtisch"
completely. But please stay with one wording all over.

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-de/2012-November/msg00079.html



Mike

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I am sorry, but I have to tag this bug as "won't fix", because it is beyond my scope as one of the Debian maitainers of MATE to change the German translation of all related packages. Thanks for contributing your concerns about the German translation of the MATE desktop environment...

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