Am 11.03.2012 17:47, schrieb Abderrahim Kitouni:
2012/3/11 Rūdolfs Mazurs <rudolfs mazurs gmail com>
Hello!
It seems that Epiphany, the browser, is gradually being
renamed to
"Web". If I understand correctly, this is because a typical
user has no
idea what "Epiphany" does. But for translators this is
problematic.
1. When I go to "Web's" About page, I see pearls like "Web
Website" and
"Copyright 2003-1012 The Web Developers". My language
doesn't use
articles, so the translations would be equivalent to
"Website of the
Web" and "Copyright 2003-1012 Web developers".
One of our translators also had the same problem with
Contacts. Since this seems to be the direction gnome
applications are going, it would be really nice to have some
global policy on how to handle these.
In any case, some consistency and clear expectations would
be nice.
Consistent options would be:
a) replace the application name with the functional label
("Files",
"Documents", "Web") only in some predefined locations, and
translate the
new label (this is what I would prefer);
This would be nice, but the new applications (e.g.
Contacts, Boxes) don't have any other name.
The global question is for me: Shouldn't we may expect that users
(even the users at the lowest imaginable level) are able to remember
some application names? In my mind, there's no plausible reason to
throw the application names away. And as we see, this produces more
problems than we had ever expected.
In case of Epiphany, we display it in the menu as "Web", just as
"Web" would be the one and only web browser all around. But if we
have a look at http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/, the pictures show the
Firefox logo within the dash (which is the default and widely used
browser anyway). I don't believe that we get more "Web" users this
way. Epiphany is quite far from being (or becoming) _the_ web
application.
However, it is not the place here to discuss such basic things, but
I'm sure here are some (or perhaps some more) people who can follow
my thoughts.
Best Regards,
Mario
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