Okay thank you all for your feedback. I will translate it with "Du" and we then later have the option to translate it with "Sie" if we want to ship a corporate version.
On 24.05.2012 10:35, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > The standards for Gnome (& Ubuntu) and KDE are the »Sie« form. I find > it very important to have the more friendly »Du« form though. Since > there are not a lot of strings with the specific form anyway, I would > say we keep the community edition »Du« as it is, and ship the company > version with »Sie«. > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Thomas Tanghus <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thursday 24 May 2012 00:34 Frank Karlitschek wrote: >>> On 23.05.2012, at 21:26, Florian Rüchel <[email protected]> > > >> The first being whether we should talk to people in the formal "Sie" or >>>> the informal "Du" in German? As a third option one might consider two >>>> languages but that might also be a bit too much. >>>> For those of you not familiar with the distinction between the two >>>> salutations: You would a address your friends with "Du" and your >>>> business partners and strangers with "Sie", both meaning "you". >>>> >>>> My personal opinion on that topic is "Du", since I would see the service >>>> more targeted against private users (like in Dropbox) than business >>>> customers, but I am aware of the "Company support" option so I would >>>> like to have your opinion before I start translating the corresponding >>>> strings. >>> >>> Currently the translation is using "Du". Today I had a meeting with a big >>> government organization in Germany than will use ownCloud in the future. >>> They complained that we use "Du" So using "Sie" might be saver because it >>> works for everybody. >> >> So very German ;-) >> >>> But this is open for discussion of course. >> >> Or you could deliver customized translations? >> >> -- >> Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards >> >> Thomas Tanghus >> _______________________________________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
