On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Stavros Giannouris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to describe the two terms in the X Window System context so that > I can provide good translations for them, but I'm a bit confused; > I have some idea in my mind about this but I can quite put it down in > writing, or it is too lengthy to be accepted in the UI. > > Can someone help me with this, or at least point me to somewhere not too > techical to read?
It is indeed a bit confusing, and the difference might not be obvious for most users (doesn't need to be), but this is how it works (at least in Gtk+/Gdk): The X server opens 1 display, a display contains >= 1 screens and a screen contains >= 1 monitors. In real life you'd hardly see a setup with > 1 screen and > 1 monitor; for example nvidia uses multiple screens for each output (each containing a single monitors with the size of the screen) and randr (intel/nouveau/..) 1 screen with multiple monitors for each output. Another detail is that monitors can overlap each other, screens cannot. Now (I assume you are translating this) in case of the panel; when a display setup uses monitors (randr), each output will have a name (LVDS, VGA1, DVI1) which is used by the panel, so you'd hardly see Monitor %d in the panel preferences. Screens on the other hand cannot have names, so there the users always sees Screen %d. If I were you I'd just translate Monitor and Screen as-is; normal users don't see a difference; but tech-users might know and (that's the reason the panel uses different names for both) it provides useful info in bug reports. Hope that helps a bit. Nick _______________________________________________ Xfce-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n
