On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Sven Neumann wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:14:55 +0200 > From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: The GNU Image Manipulation Program > <gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Integrated Scripting > > Hi, > > Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > The thing is that there are plenty of exceptions to that rule. > >> > File|Dialogs being a big source of stuff that doesn't need an image, > > > > I'm irked that we have both Dialogs and Dialogues > > Sorry, would you mind to explain that? We only have a menu called > Dialogs. Everything else is a translated menu entry.
It is ugly little localisation issue that I wish was not an issue at all. I should probably take it up with the en-GB translation team but if the menu item used a word that was the same in both American and British English my problem would go away. Seeing the most recent version of the gimp with the word Dialogs localised to "Dialogues" looks really really weird and disturbing. I've always thought of "Dialogs" (American spelling) as the computer kind and "Dialogues" (British spelling) as the conversation kind. Software manufacturers so rarely bother to fully localise computer terminology I have grown to think of the American way of spelling things to refer to the computer terminology. I wish I could find other examples of using local spellings to have a subtely different meaning but off the top of my head I cannot think of any non computing related examples (analogue, dialogue, programme, favourites, etc) but maybe you can think of examples of German words that have ambiguous meanings depending on which German speaking country they come from. I hope that makes some sense. > > and I would like to see it replaced with a term that doesn't require > > extra localisation work and yes I wouldn't be averse to slapping the > > slightly inappropriate "Windows" label on it (benefit of consistency > > with other software) but Palettes or even Docks which actualy > > describes the type of dialogs might be better. > > Windows is usually used for a list of opened windows. Photoshop is a bit weird I admit but the Windows menu is where it puts the menu items to control what Palettes are shown. The list of Open Windows is also included in there somewhere, and also an option to "save workspace" which will make sure window positions are remembered and a few other bits and peices (like maybe Close All, but I dont have convenient access to Photoshop so I'm really not sure what is in there). > So if we used that we would use a term that is consistently used in > other applications for something completely different. In theory the View menu would be the place to put menu items to control what windows/dialogs are shown or not shown but in this case it is not at all pratical. It may not be consistent in the general sense but graphics applications do what is consistent with Photoshop for better or worse. The menus are being reorganised anyway and this would be one less thing for them to complain about, so if ever there was an appropriate time for me to mention it I think this is it. > And we should actually consider to add a Windows menu that lists all > open GIMP windows. Listing all the open window list might help reduce the requests for a tabbed interface to the gimp many of which seem to be due to difficulties in managing lots of open windows. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
