[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#524970: Bug#524970: empathy: "Bonjour" protocole name translatedy

[Jean-Christophe Dubacq]

Sjoerd Simons a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:43:00AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
>> Package: empathy
>> Version: 2.26.1-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> The translator for French language decide to translated the name of the
>> Bonjour protocole. That is just plain stupid, this is the name of a protocol.
>> I do not know if it should be translated at all, but at least in French, it
>> should remain "Bonjour". Would you translate TCP/IP to PCT/PI?
> 
> Sorry? There is no such thing as the Bonjour protocol. Bonjour is a trademark
> registered by apple for a suite of different technologies. Also this is not
> translated by the french translators, the protocol in add accounts is Salut in
> every language. Salut being our implementation of XMPP XEP-0174.
> 
> If one is very strict we should call the protocol serverless XMPP messaging or
> similar, but that's not actually helpful to anyone. Anyway, this is not a bug,
> closing the report

OK. It is just very strange looking and it really will let people think
that this is a translation error. Moreover, Pidgin calls it "Bonjour"
and when you import accounts, it shows up as "Salut" (which is really
the same thing as "Good day" and "Hello"). Quite confusing, indeed.
However, I may file a bug against pidgin (indeed, they are not using
Bonjour® as a name without using the official Bonjour source, only Avahi
the free software equivalent).