GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131419
l10n: Refer to tabulators as "tabulators", not "tabs".
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
File: gedit/dialogs/gedit-preferences.glade2 The "Editor" tab in the preferences dialog contains a section "Tabs". It is clear from the context of the dialog that this refers to tabulators, but this is _not_ clear from the POT file. The translator, who does not necessarily have the source available, can't trivially find out whether this refers to tabulators in a text or tabs in a notebook widget. (See first sentence in paragraph.) If the heading is changed from "Tabs" to "Tabulators", this ambiguity disappears. (For consistency, also replace "tabs" in the two options below the heading.)
*** Bug 132360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In the duplicate bug, Dave suggest using "Tab" instead of "Tabs" to make slightly clearer that we are referring to the tab character, not to the MDI widget. For what is worth, I'm not an English speaker, but I'd find "Tabulator" pretty strange: I always heard/used "tab"...
Sorry for the extra spam, rereading the duplicate bug the suggestion is using "Tab Key Indentation" which I find quite clear.
Paolo, I'm adding the ui-review keyword to this bug, is there a meta ui-review bug for gedit as well that we can block based on this bug?
Created attachment 30067 [details] [review] suggested string change Before we stumble in string freeze again, is this patch which uses "Tab Key Indentation" instead of "Tabs" good to commit? Are there better suggestions for the string? Or do we stick with "Tabs" and WONTFIX this bug?
I don't like "Tab Key Indentation" very much. Probably "Tab" is better. "Tabulators" is not so bad too. See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=23261&action=view Usability guys: what do you think?
I was going to say that "tabulators" was definitely the wrong word, but then I looked it up, and sure enough, it actually is right. But no one ever actually uses that word. "Tab", "Tab Key", "Tabbing", "Tab Stops", "Tab Key Indentation" Or just reuse the string "Tabs" somewhere in the source code so that you can put a comment before it explaining that it means the tab key, not MDI, and that comment will get sucked into the po files.
What about Tab Stops Tab width: [8] []Insert spaces instead of tabs Usability guys: what do you think? I'd really like to close this bug.
I don't know if I count as a usability guy, but as the person who complained about "tabulators" before, all of that wording sounds fine.
Fixed in CVS HEAD: 2004-12-13 Paolo Maggi <paolo@gnome.org> * dialogs/gedit-preferences.glade2: s/Tabs/Tab Stops and s/Tabs width/Tab width and added a comment for translators (fixes bug #131419: l10n: Refer to tabulators as "tabulators", not "tabs".)