Re: [PATCH] Password dialog HIGification patch + Set Language dialog fix

From: Christian Neumair (chris@gnome-de.org)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 12:10:39 EDT

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    Am Son, 2003-06-01 um 16.20 schrieb Alan Horkan:
    > On 1 Jun 2003, Christian Neumair wrote:
    >
    > > Date: 01 Jun 2003 12:19:00 +0200
    > > From: Christian Neumair <chris@gnome-de.org>
    > > To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
    > > Subject: [PATCH] Password dialog HIGification patch + Set Language dialog
    > > fix
    > >
    > > The attached patch HIGifies the unix Password dialog and contains a few
    > > lines of xap translation header changes referring to the Set Language
    > > dialog Dom obviously forgot to commit.
    >
    > While replacing OK with an Action is usually an improvement, In this case
    > I think "Authenticate" is Overkill and frankly more confusing than OK
    > (to ordinary people Authenticate is not a simple word, and if you dont
    > have English as your first language it would be very unpleasant to try
    > and understand).
    > I dont recally seeing any other gnome password dialogs doing this.
    If English is not your first language you should try to find a
    translation appropriate for your mother tongue ;).
    Of course you're right, the terminology is requiring advanced English
    knowledge. I'm not sure whether that's the right way.
    I hope to get some more feedback, I just want to avoid Cancel|Ok'ism and
    give the label a more verbose description.
    Do you have a better proposal apart from having just an Ok button?

    regs,
     Chris



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