Re: Start/Stop volumes and l10n
- From: Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>
- To: Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>
- Cc: Gnome i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>, Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>, gnome-doc-list gnome org, nautilus-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Start/Stop volumes and l10n
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:12:45 +0200
On 7/25/09, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> wrote:
> 2009/7/25 Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>:
> > Well, it's not always a good strategy to translate things literally from
> > English, simply because we're working with natural languages here. Anyway,
> > what about wording like "Start working with...", "Begin your work
> > with...", or something similar?
>
> My concern was not only about translation, but also for english
> version. Start and stop are common action (start application, stop
> loading and so on) in Nautilus and other places of (GNOME) desktop.
>
> However, it seems that start and stop are also the verbs used for
> RAID, see command line programs raidstart(8) and raidstop(8)
>
> The man page[1] for those commands reports the following explanation:
> * raidstart : activates (starts) an existing 'persistent' md device
> * raidstop : turns off an md device, and unconfigures (stops) it
>
> To activate seems to me a better term for start action. How about to
> use Activate/Deactivate in UI?
>
> [1] http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/man_pages/raidstop8.html
For changes or suggestions to the English terminology, please bring it
up on gnome-doc-list. Then, file a bug report against the application
and point to any consensus (if any) on the gnome-doc-list.
Christian
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