I and Mohammed had a very long discussion on this, take a look at this page I'm sure this is very interesting, both posts are interesting: http://wiki.arabeyes.org/QacDiscussions
at the end it's not my decision. As the whole translations will eventually take this path. My voice when the QAC ppl agree on a structure at the end will be a single vote and not a decision by itself, So REALLY if at the end all will say NO we want fi3l amr or we'll make suicide ;) then I'll have to agree on fi3l amr! To the Micro$oft problem as you'll see in Wiki, I don't think the masdar thingie is a Microsoft thingie, I think it's pure distance of the user to the PC. yours Arafat Am Die, den 16.03.2004 schrieb Mohammed Yousif um 20:21: > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 21:10, Mohammed Yousif wrote: > > On Monday 15 March 2004 17:40, Arafat Medini wrote: > > > Salam all, > > > > > > The poll ended (theoretically) today with a 85% for masdar and a 15% for > > > fi3l amr which is crazy! > > > > > > with 105 ppl who contributed I want to ask Isam to tell all these ppl > > > that their contribution was not aesthetic and will be used for the work, > > > this is REAL democraty! YEY! I really hope we can use this BIG potential > > > of users to test gnome for eg. etc... > > > > hmm, too bad, I'm all for fi3l al-amr, I really should have voted. > > Oh yeah, sometimes democracy is not the best way of doing things. > Sometimes, users don't know what is best for them (especially when they > are influenced by Microzift's monopoly). > And of course sometimes it's best to translate words the way _their_ authors > intended them to be. > > Hey, it's like not following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard just because > most (windows to be specific) users don't like it and voted against it as > they want to see the more familiar 'Windows' and 'Program Files' directories! _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
