Fwd: system-config-printer naming (what's in a name....)

[Pjotr Vertaalt]

Hallo collegae,

Eindelijk een reactie van bovenstrooms, over de naamgeving van Afdrukbeheer
(en een fout in de brontekst). Positief!

Groet, Pjotr.

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From: Tim Waugh <twaugh op redhat.com>
Date: 2012/7/18
Subject: Re: system-config-printer naming (what's in a name....)
To: Pjotr pjotrvertaalt op gmail.com

Hi Pjotr,

Sorry I haven't replied to this earlier.  There was some discussion a
while ago about what the utility should be named as it appears in menus,
and I just need to find that again and fix it.

On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 12:58 +0200, Pjotr wrote:
> When you would want to adapt those, you’d probably also want to adapt
> string 655. For two reasons: you’d want to have the new name in it,
> and also you may want to change the menu path it refers to. Because as
> far as I can see, that’s a Gnome 2 path, and therefore not very
> current anymore.

Ah, well spotted.  Thanks.

Tim.
*/

On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 12:58 +0200, Pjotr wrote:

> Hello Tim,
>
> As a downstream translator for Ubuntu, I find the translatable menu
> item “Printing” in the source code, a bit confusing. It tends to be
> translated into things like “Busy with printing” etc.
>
> I myself made that mistake once, too… One of those highly visible
> translation errors that haunt a poor translator for months, creating
> outcry in the user community. :P
>
> Would you perhaps consider changing the menu item “Printing” into
> something like “Print Settings”, “Print Manager”, “Printing
> Management”, or something roughly along those lines?
>
> The translatable source code strings I’m referring to, are string 376
> and 622. I use the Ubuntu .pot file as a reference (maybe the Fedora
> .pot file uses a different string numbering, but I don’t suppose so).
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