Bug#382186: [Debconf-devel] Bug#382186: Proposed changes to the debconf templates

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:08:17PM +0200, Emanuele Aina wrote:
> Here are the suggestion:
> 
> > #. Type: select
> > #. Choices
> > #: ../templates:1001
> > msgid "Gnome"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> 
> > #. Type: select
> > #. Choices
> > #: ../templates:1001
> > msgid "Kde"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> 
> Those should be written even in English as KDE and GNOME, according to
> their guidelines.

I think at the moment they're presented that way because under the hood
the frontends are case-sensitively called "Gnome" and "Kde". You'd need
to check whether setting debconf/frontend to GNOME or KDE will do the
right thing at the moment.

> > #. Type: select
> > #. Description
> > #: ../templates:1002
> > msgid ""
> > "The dialog frontend is a full-screen, character based interface,
> > while the "
> > "readline frontend uses a more traditional plain text interface, and
> > both the "
> > "gnome and kde frontends are modern X interfaces, fitting the
> > respective "
> > "desktops (but may be used in any X environment). The editor frontend
> > lets "
> > "you configure things using your favorite text editor. The
> > noninteractive "
> > "frontend never asks you any questions."
> 
> 
> What about a little modification:
> 
> "The dialog frontend is a full-screen, character based interface, while

(This should be either "full-screen, character-based" or "full screen,
character based" - I prefer the former, but then British English is a
little biased towards hyphens.)

> the readline frontend uses a more traditional plain text interface, and
> both the GNOME and KDE frontends are modern graphical interfaces,
> fitting the respective desktops environment (but may be used in any X

"desktop environments"

> "The GNOME and KDE frontends are modern graphical interfaces,
> fitting the respective desktops environment (but may be used in any

"desktop environments"

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]