Question about the Terminal

[Matthew East]

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 13:46 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:25 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:09 +0000, matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com
> > wrote:
> > > Naaman Campbell writes: 
> > > 
> > > > Milo, 
> > > > 
> > > > Please change this in the docs.  the Applications->System
> > > > Tools->Terminal path of accessing the Terminal seems to be pre Breezy
> > > > (and maybe pre Hoary!).  I am currently running Breezy (my Dapper runs
> > > > on a server machine of mine).
> > > 
> > > I replied to Milo but forgot to send to the list. This sort of thing can be 
> > > done via entities I believe, we just need to update the relevant entities 
> > > and use them. I'll take a look. 
> > 
> > Yes, ok. I've updated the &terminal; entity.
> > 
> > The other entities you can use for menus are in
> > ubuntu/libs/gnome-menus-C.ent
> > 
> > However, we need to think pretty carefully about this: using them and
> > failing to get them translated would be a really bad idea. To be honest,
> > I can't think of a particularly easy way to get them translated, and it
> > therefore might be a better idea to avoid using them and keep references
> > to menu items express in the guides' source. Any thoughts?
> 
> Just to clarify, it is actually _possible_ to get these translated. I've
> made a gnome-menus.pot for translation and put it in ubuntu/menus. It
> could even be put in the pot file for the desktopguide and then
> separated out again later. The question is whether it is worth the
> effort... I'm not convinced it is, in the end only one or two entities
> will be used and the translation process will be a little tricky,
> especially recreating all those ubuntu/menus/C/*xml files...

Yet another reclarification. Feel free to use the &terminal; entity, it
get's expanded during our translation process so translators will see it
fine and can translate it as appropriate.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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