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Bug 590619 - Main-menu too large because of non-optimal translation
Main-menu too large because of non-optimal translation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: l10n
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: French [fr]
GNOME 2.26
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: French Translator Team
French Translator Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-03 12:58 UTC by jc
Modified: 2009-08-10 10:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
main-menu too wide in French (74.16 KB, image/png)
2009-08-03 12:59 UTC, jc
Details

Description jc 2009-08-03 12:58:48 UTC
Incorrect translation
Application: gnome-menus

Incorrect text:
In the Main-menu, "Home" is translated by "Dossier Personnel", which I think is
too long.

The whole line is too long and the global appearance of the menu is broken, far
too large on the right side.

Please check the attached screen capture. I don't remember how it was
translated before, but I don't remember of such an issue before 11.0.

Should be:
I suggest to remove the "au total" string to gain some space.
It would be nice, if possible, to make the text editable or splitable into 2 lines.
Comment 1 jc 2009-08-03 12:59:53 UTC
Created attachment 139782 [details]
main-menu too wide in French
Comment 2 Claude Paroz 2009-08-03 18:53:50 UTC
I suspect this screen is Suse specific. Please enter the bug in your distribution issue tracker.
Comment 3 jc 2009-08-03 20:56:06 UTC
I come from there and they say it is upstream.

Look at there :
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523613
Comment 4 Claude Paroz 2009-08-03 21:11:50 UTC
OK, here it is, in gnome-main-menu:
#: ../main-menu/src/hard-drive-status-tile.c:239
#, c-format
msgid "Home: %s Free / %s"
msgstr "Dossier personnel : %s libres / %s au total"

My proposal would be:
msgstr "Dossier personnel : %s libres sur %s"

I don't see a shorter and acceptable version right now. Other opinions? 
Comment 5 jc 2009-08-04 08:55:58 UTC
Not many choices, I think it is better.

But to me, another problem is that "Dossier personnel" is not synchronized with the actual folder name (for instance, I tried to rename it "Dossier perso" in nautilus). Or why not giving it the user name ?
Comment 6 Claude Paroz 2009-08-10 10:49:44 UTC
I fixed this as in my comment #4.
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-main-menu/commit/?id=59abd82b6b4ed67f359f2caccc5b38fae1222519

The second issue you mention in your last comment is not a translation issue, but an application one. Please report a bug against gnome-main-menu if you want developers to give attention to it.