On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:56:11PM +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > Matthew Paul Thomas pisze: > >PrzemysBaw Kulczycki wrote on 21/04/08 14:36: > >>I know that we're already behind the translation freeze, but there is > >>something that many translators translate wrong. > >>In the livecd bootloader, upon entering Try Ubuntu there is a briefly > >>displayed string "Loading Linux kernel" which many translators translate > >>as "Loading Linux's kernel" (Loading kernel of Linux) which is wrong, > >>because Linux doesn't have a kernel, Linux _is the kernel_. So the > >>string should be translated to mean "Loading kernel named Linux" rather > >>than "Loading kernel of Linux".
This message should probably go away altogether, or be replaced with "Loading..."; there's no need to go into detail here, IMO. I didn't have time to do anything about this for 8.04. > >Perhaps you could report a bug for adding an explanatory comment in the > >source code, immediately after this string. That way the comment will > >show up as a note in Launchpad for people translating the string. Not quite accurate, but true if the comment is placed in the .pot file. > Which package should I file this bug against? syslinux? gfxboot? other? gfxboot-theme-ubuntu, please. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
