GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 303799
Should use "Restart", not "Reboot"
Last modified: 2005-06-02 16:15:40 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/10232 "Ubuntu's login screen uses the term "Reboot". It should use "Restart". This would be just as precise, understandable for more people, and consistent with the logout dialog."
Is this a problem with gdm2 or with Ubuntu's distribution? I'm agreeable to changing the terminology used in gdm2 from Reboot to Restart if this is better termonology. I'm not sure it should be changed just to make one distributions language usage more consistant. Ubuntu can modify the source to make the terminology more consistant for their distribution if they want.
There is nothing distro specific here. From the CVS: # grep -i reboot po/gnome-session-2.0.pot # #grep -i restart po/gnome-session-2.0.pot "gnome-session must be restarted for this to take effect." "\"restart\" for restarting the system." msgid "Restart" "GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in." msgid "The Settings Daemon restarted too many times." msgid "_Restart the computer" msgid "Restart abandoned due to failures."
When gdm2 refers to "restart", it is referring to restarting a process. The messages refer to restarting the gdm2 daemon process, the settings daemon process, or gnome-session. You reference the gnome-session-2.0.pot file, which is a different module than GDM2. If you think there is a bug with gnome-session messages, you should file a bug under the gnome-session category, not gdm2. Or I can refile the bug to that module if you like. I think it is appropriate to use "restart" when referring to restarting a process.
the bug is about to use "restart" instead of "reboot" which is what gnome-session does: msgid "_Restart the computer" now gdm uses "Reboot" for the same action, that's not coherent. One of them should be fixed, the ubuntu bug supposed that's gdm ... if you disagree feel free to reassign on gnome-session to say they should use "Reboot"
I agree that GNOME should use consistant terminology, and as I said, I'm happy to change the wording in GDM2, if its decided that's the right place. I'll check with the usability people and see what they think. They are probably the right people to decide what terminology should be consistant across the desktop. I'll likely touch base with them at GUADEC next month.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305939 ***