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Bug 125964 - "Username's Home" difficult to translate
"Username's Home" difficult to translate
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 126205 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-01 09:47 UTC by Marius Andreiana
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Marius Andreiana 2003-11-01 09:47:51 UTC 
Please use 'Home' instead of 'Username's home'.
It's more clear and easier to translate.

Christian Rose agrees.
Comment 1 Christian Rose 2003-11-01 22:57:29 UTC 
I agree, but we had the same discussion in bug 45360 for the Nautilus
desktop icon, though. There it was decided to leave the English
message as it was and instead let translators use "%.0s" for the
username in the string if needed, which would cause the username to
not be shown. Also, an appropriate comment was added.

I'm actually fine with either of these solutions, although I would
prefer if the English message could be changed to just "Home", as
that's a much cleaner solution.
Comment 2 Christian Rose 2003-11-04 20:52:07 UTC 
*** Bug 126205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Danilo Segan 2003-11-04 21:32:41 UTC 
I'm just pasting my comments from bug 126205 (sorry for the duplicate):

This string is really hard to translate to other languages (those
languages where genitive suffix depends on gender, word form, etc.).

#: gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c:528
#, c-format
msgid "%s's Home"

General guideline should be to avoid string composition when it's
possible, and even more so when '%s' can be free form (i.e. there's no
fixed subset of possible values).

So, I would agree that simply "Home" would be best.
Comment 4 Federico Mena Quintero 2003-12-10 03:47:29 UTC 
Changed to "Home".

We should standardize this across the desktop.