Bug#766404: iceweasel-l10n-fi: misleading translation "Muokkaa valitsimia" in customizableWidgets

Carsten Schoenert c.schoenert at t-online.de
Thu Oct 23 08:32:53 UTC 2014


Hello Kalle Olavi,

I adding Philipp Kewisch from the Mozilla Lightning Team to the
recipients, he is making the Lightning packages for Icedove but could
also helping here propably.

@Philipp
Are you able to help here or could give us some more infos there to put
this issue? Thanks!

Regards
Carsten

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:53:22PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Package: iceweasel-l10n-fi
> Version: 1:31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1
> File: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/langpack-fi at iceweasel.mozilla.org.xpi
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream, l10n
> 
> Click the menu button at the right end of the tool bar, and then
> click the "Muokkaa" button at the bottom of the menu to start
> customizing it.  By default, the topmost item in the menu is the
> "Leikkaa Kopioi Liitä" (Cut Copy Paste) widget.  Drag the widget
> to the "Lisää työkaluja ja ominaisuuksia" area at left side of
> the menu.  A miniature version of the widget appears there, and
> it has a caption below it: "Muokkaa valitsimia".  This caption is
> misleading because you cannot use the widget to edit any
> controls; rather, the widget consists of controls with which you
> can edit text.
> 
> Within langpack-fi at iceweasel.mozilla.org.xpi, the string is defined in
> chrome/fi/locale/browser/customizableui/customizableWidgets.properties.
> It seems this has not yet been fixed in the upstream repository:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/fi/file/ed5975cb1b75/browser/chrome/browser/customizableui/customizableWidgets.properties
> http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/fi/file/45c33ed9944f/browser/chrome/browser/customizableui/customizableWidgets.properties
> but I'm not that familiar with their version-control practices.
> 
> Alternative translations:
> * "Muokkausvalitsimet" would be more correct, and pretty close
>   to the current translation.  I'm not sure "controls" is
>   customarily translated to "valitsimet", though.
> * "Muokkauksen valitsimet" would be consistent with "Lähennyksen
>   valitsimet" in customizableWidgets.properties, but it seems a
>   bit clunky and might even be misunderstood as something with
>   which you can select edits that you have previously made.
> * "Muokkaussäätimet" would be consistent with "Näytä säätimet"
>   in chrome/fi/locale/browser/browser.dtd.  However, "säätimet"
>   seems very appropriate for trackbars or dials but not so good
>   for instant commands like "Leikkaa" (Copy).
> * "Muokkauspainikkeet" would reflect that the widget consists of
>   three buttons.  This is my favorite for now.
> * "Muokkauskomennot" seems old-fashioned.  I don't think user
>   interfaces nowadays talk about giving commands to the computer.
> * "Leikepöytä" would reflect that all three buttons in the widget
>   relate to the clipboard, but I think that word isn't used much
>   nowadays, so users might not recognize it.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.7
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages iceweasel-l10n-fi depends on:
> ii  iceweasel  31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1
> 
> Versions of packages iceweasel-l10n-fi recommends:
> ii  xul-ext-mozvoikko  2.0.1-1
> 
> iceweasel-l10n-fi suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information



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