NAGEL Erlend wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > Therefore, "Gtk's Signale wischen" ("wiping Gtk's signals") would not give any real
> > sense.
>
> Okay, zweiter Versuch, second attempt:
>
> "GTK's Signale leer machen", which I hope will mean "Empty GTK's
> signals" which could be close to clearing the signals, but again it
> may sound funny in German.
Well, I regret having to say this, but it's clumsy :)
In German most sentences with "etwas .. [machen|tun]" (to [make|do] something ...) are
regarded clusmy style -- Children would use it :)
The actual wording you seem to be proposing is "leeren", which has a similar meaning as
"to clear", but it associates to empty a container, eg. "Den Mülleimer leeren" (to
empty
the trashcan), "eine Flasche/ein Glass leeren" (to empty a bottle / a glass), therefore
it is more similar to "to empty" (In case this word exists in English) than to "to
clear".
> Maybe that is what is needed, to include a
> second word that specifically states what to "loesch", if it is the
> entries "Eintraege" or the widgets or signals etc. (I don't know the
> context of the translation here).
I was refering to the Delete and Clear buttons on the Properties->Signal notebook page
in glade.
While the Delete button deletes/removes a signal previously being selected from a CList
on that page,
the Clear button clears/deletes the current entries of a signal being inserted into a
couple of GtkEntries.
IMO, even relabeling the "Delete" button with "Remove" in the English version would
give
sense, but native English speakers might know better than me.
I think, I'll submit a patch to Damon to get this case closed.
Ralf
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