Hi, I have had a check through New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors for the words in preferred_forms file. Many of the more computing specific terms are not listed, but those that are I have put in the attached file.
The dictionary is for UK English, not US English. I am not suggesting KDE should follow New Oxford Dictionary, KDE can have its own style, but whatever style is decided on should be followed consistently. best regards, David On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 22:02 +0200, Burkhard L?ck wrote: > Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 18:10:25 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth: > > Readding the list since others hopefully will have comments... > > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Burkhard L?ck <lueck at hube-lueck.de> > > wrote: > > > Here a list of missing gui elements from the 3.5 visual dictionary -most > > > of > > > them covered by Claus' version on userbase: > > > Button, Check Box, Color Selector, Combo Box, Context Menu, Dialog Box, > > > Drop Down Box, Icon List, List Box, Progress Bar, Radio Button, Scrollbar > > > or Scroll Bar?, Slider, Spin Box, Tab, Tabbed Window, Text Box > > > > I've filled in the dictionary part for all these missing items now, > > except for Tabbed Window. I'm not aware of any use of tabs that are > > not in such a configuration, so it seemed rather redundant. > > > > I also decided to distinguish a Text Box (e.g. QLineEdit) from a Text > > Area (e.g. QTextEdit) because IMHO there are enough differences in > > appearance and behavior (e.g. what happens when you press Enter) to > > warrant distinguishing the two. > > > Makes sense to me > > > Is everyone okay with these two modifications? Is the draft [1] > > missing any other widgets? Please also have a look at the > > descriptions and suggest any improvements, some of them came out a > > little awkward and I'm not sure exactly how best to fix. > > > Some minor issues: > > * Reducing the width of the window leads to many line breaks in Description > column of the table and make the text difficult to read. Could you make the > Screenshot column narrower ? > > * Regarding the wording/spelling of the widgets (scrollbar vs scroll bar > etc.) > I have attached the file preferred_forms used on english.breakfast.org to > check > the docbooks and a statistic from stable (4,10) of all widget names and their > spelling. Of course we should sync this spelling with ebn. > > * Should we use the "The Plasma Desktop" section from > http://userbase.kde.org/User:Claus_chr/Visual_Dictionary ? > > Apart from that I am ok with your proposal. > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > kde-doc-english mailing list > kde-doc-english at kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english -------------- next part -------------- Preferred forms from New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. cannot - except where used as - can not only...but also... fine-tune - as a verb infrared lower case pop-up - as adjective pop up - as verb preset screen saver sidebar spellcheck spelling checker to-do toolbar upper case web page
