GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318600
Use "configuration" instead of "config" in gconf messages
Last modified: 2008-01-08 14:32:06 UTC
#: ../backends/evoldap-backend.c:453 #, c-format msgid "Config file '%s' is empty" #: ../gconf/gconf.c:3025 #, c-format msgid "Failure shutting down config server: %s" #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:354 #, c-format msgid "" "No configuration files found, trying to use the default config source `%s'" #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:375 #, c-format msgid "Error loading some config sources: %s" #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:387 msgid "" "No config source addresses successfully resolved, can't load or store config " "data" #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:404 msgid "" "No writable config sources successfully resolved, may not be able to save " "some configuration changes" #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:216 msgid "" "Launch the config server (gconfd). (Normally happens automatically when " "needed.)" #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:333 msgid "" "Access the config database directly, bypassing server. Requires that gconfd " "is not running." #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:342 msgid "" "Properly installs schema files on the command line into the database. " "GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable should be set to a non-default " "config source or set to the empty string to use the default." #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:351 msgid "" "Properly uninstalls schema files on the command line from the database. " "GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable should be set to a non-default " "config source or set to the empty string to use the default." #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:723 msgid "" "You must specify a config source with --config-source when using --direct\n" #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:1578 #, c-format msgid "Failed to spawn the config server (gconfd): %s\n" #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:3699 ../gconf/gconftool.c:3734 #, c-format msgid "Error syncing config data: %s" Please do *not* use slang terms such as "config". Please spell out "configuration" instead. Doing so would also be a big boost for consistency, as many messages already use the full term "configuration".
Using "config" isn't going to be confusing to English speakers, but abbreviations like that are slang and less professional-looking. In my eyes, the real critical thing in those strings is to fix the comma splices. As a general rule: when you join two discrete sentences by simply inserting a comma between them, it is *ALWAYS* a grammar error. There are also a number of other grammar issues with the above strings. #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:354 #, c-format msgid "" "No configuration files found, trying to use the default config source `%s'" Should be "No configuration files found. Attempting to use default configuration source `%s'" #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:387 msgid "" "No config source addresses successfully resolved, can't load or store config " "data" Should be maybe "No configuration source address was successfully resolved. Cannot load or store configuration data" #: ../gconf/gconfd.c:404 msgid "" "No writable config sources successfully resolved, may not be able to save " "some configuration changes" "No writable configuration source was successfully resolved. May be unable to save some configuration changes" #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:333 msgid "" "Access the config database directly, bypassing server. Requires that gconfd " "is not running." "Bypass server, and access the configuration database directly. Requires that gconfd not be running." #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:342 msgid "" "Properly installs schema files on the command line into the database. " "GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable should be set to a non-default " "config source or set to the empty string to use the default." #: ../gconf/gconftool.c:351 msgid "" "Properly uninstalls schema files on the command line from the database. " "GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable should be set to a non-default " "config source or set to the empty string to use the default." For the last sentence of each of these, I'd recommend: "Specify a custom configuration source in the GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable, or set the variable to an empty string to use the default configuration source."
Fixed them all now finally.