String question - "%s Features"

Alejandro J. Cura alejandro.cura at canonical.com
Mon Aug 4 19:38:00 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:50 AM, David Planella
<david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Fòram na Gàidhlig
> <fios at foramnagaidhlig.net> wrote:
>>
>> The string "%s Features" in the Unity Media Scanner Scope is highly
>> ambiguous, so I have opened a bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-scope-mediascanner/+bug/1351696
>>
>> While I'm waiting for the bug to be resolved, does anybody know what it
>> means?
>>
>> It's not clear what's in the placeholder or if "Features" is 3rd person
>> present tense of a verb, or a noun.
>>
>> Also, is this "features" in the sense of software features, or in the
>> sense of featuring something in a promotional context?
>
>
> Thanks for reporting the bug. I can't quite figure it out myself. Jussi,
> would you be able to shed some light into what "%s Features" means?

Hi, Jussi is on vacations this week, so I'll try to fill in.

Looking at the code, I see that the "%s Features" string is used as a
category title in the dash, so it's shown as the title before each
group of search results.
The %s will be replaced by the source, so it will look like "Youtube
Features", "Vimeo Features", "TEDx Features", etc.
So, in a sense it will have the same meaning as "Feature Presentation"
when calling the main film in a theater:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=170490

I'm trying to find some designs for this, will post them here if there
are any, and will find about updating the branch with a comment for
translators.

cheers,
-- 
alecu




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