Nicola Pero <[email protected]> writes: > I'm not sure, but our of interest I looked at the Apple Human > Interface Guidelines and they seem to require 'Command-q' for 'Quit' > regardless of the language. ;-)
All right then. > I actually happen to agree with you that 'Command-q' is not a > particularly good choice for quit in most languages since there is no > relationship between 'q' and the word for quit in most languages Exactly that is what I mean. > ... On the other hand, even in English, there doesn't seem to be a > particular logic in the choice of Command-v for Paste (other than x, > c, v are in a row in the keyboard), Command-z for Undo and Command-w > for close (other than it's near q). There seem to be some logic in > some other choices, such as Command-s for Save. I think Command-v for Paste has been chosed because character V is like an arrow that is pointed down.. Command-w associates for Window and indeed, it's near q. > But a reasonable point of view is that the key equivalents are > actually semi-random letters ... in all languages, including English > ;-) Indeed. > 'Quit'. Consistency is much more important than translating the key! It's true. > So, it may be easier to stick with 'Command-q' for 'quit' regardless > of the language, or if we do want to translate it, we need to agree on > what letter to use for each standard action in each language. But, in a Menu there is the word Quit naming the action and beside that word 'Quit' is shortcut 'q'. Similarly in Hungarian there is a word 'Kilép' and beside it could be 'k' and nobody can be confused because everyone can see the word and the first letter of that word as a shortcut. But this is only my thought. > So ... all in all, I wouldn't translate them ;-) OK then! Thank you for the explanation! I understand that translation of an application has a philosophy and one must follow some Guidelines when she/he want to translate a software. :) -- Regards, Paul Chany You can freely correct my English. http://csanyi-pal.info _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
