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Bug 684202 - Ambiguous string
Ambiguous string
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Network
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-17 12:02 UTC by Alexandre Franke
Modified: 2012-10-09 08:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.5/3.6


Attachments
network: Clarify some Hotspot related strings (1.76 KB, patch)
2012-09-19 10:15 UTC, Bastien Nocera
committed Details | Review

Description Alexandre Franke 2012-09-17 12:02:25 UTC
"If you have a connection to the Internet other than wireless, you can use it to share your internet connection with others."

"It is not possible to access the internet through your wireless while the hotspot is active."

Those two strings (found in panels/network/net-device-wifi.c) are ambiguous. The presence of both Internet and internet (first with a capital i, then without the capital) doesn't help. Are there two distinct connections? I guess the correct path is:

The Internet ←wire→ Your computer ←wireless→ other people getting access to the Internet

but it sounds like internet (no capital) could be the network made of your computer and the ones getting access to the Internet through it.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2012-09-19 02:02:17 UTC
The first sentence might be clearer as:

"If you have a connection to the Internet other than wireless, you can set up a wireless hotspot to share the connection with others."

The second should perhaps have Internet capitalized:

"It is not possible to access the Internet through your wireless while the hotspot is active."


Better ?
Comment 2 Alexandre Franke 2012-09-19 06:36:45 UTC
Yes, that's way better. :)
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-19 10:15:28 UTC
Created attachment 224728 [details] [review]
network: Clarify some Hotspot related strings
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2012-10-09 08:19:02 UTC
Attachment 224728 [details] pushed as d5d66b9 - network: Clarify some Hotspot related strings