Hi, In data giovedì 7 gennaio 2016 22:42:18, Jaroslaw Staniek ha scritto: > Not too long ago MS Windows has moved from "Title Capitalization" to > "Sentence capitalization" for menus and commands: > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn742392.aspx > > What can we do and should we do something about this?
Nothing IMHO -- see below. > - For everyone else perhaps it's better to offer something officially > or else some people would fork translations or avoid using KDE's code. You don't need to fork anything, just provide a "translation" on top of the untranslated strings. > - Is automated conversion for capitalization a reasonable approach? > Runtime or script-based generation. Definitely not: please never ever mess up with user-visible strings. > - Do we have checks for semantic strings and capitalization? If so > would they need updates, or? By hand, when somebody spots a mistake and fixes it. > - Some (future?) KF5 users would target Windows expecting that the > resulting apps look and feel largely native. > [...] > - Mac OS X and iOS is consistent with KDE capitalization: > > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/TerminologyWording.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-CH15-SW4 To simplify the situation: - right now we are like OS-A but different than OS-B - with your proposal, we would be like OS-B but different than OS-A So, there would be always a class of users feeling "native" (regarding the string capitalization), and another one feeling "alien". Sorry, but I don't see how mass-changing English strings, to end up in the very same situation (1 like, 1 different) wrt other OSes. At least for me, it has been hard enough to keep KDE applications following our style in the last 10+ years, I don't want to start over again. -- Pino Toscano
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