[Ardour-Dev] Ardour GUI strings
Dan Weatherill
plasteredparrot at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 01:25:19 PDT 2008
I don't object at all to following the KISS principle, what I don't
understand is how the KISS principle is somehow anything to do with GNOME??
Piotr Zaryk wrote:
> >Sorry, I think I overreacted there :-P. I afree that the extra nudge
> word should be removed...
>
> The 'nudge' word is only an example. There are lots of such
> repetitions. ;-) Repeating or not words included in the higher
> category does not depend on the enviroment. Windows professional
> applications also follows KISS and do not repeat names of the
> functionunnecessarily.
>
> 2008/4/14, Dan Weatherill <plasteredparrot at gmail.com
> <mailto:plasteredparrot at gmail.com>>:
>
> Sorry, I think I overreacted there :-P. I afree that the extra
> nudge word should be removed...
>
>
> Piotr Zaryk wrote:
>
> I meant that Ardour uses GTK and GNOME GUI standards would be
> welcome. I think we shold set some rules how to design Ardour
> GUI. It is changing on every Ardour release.
>
> It's obvious because Ardour is still in development but I
> think some rules could prevent the mess in the interface and
> could simplify it. That, in fact will make writing Ardour
> documentation easier.
>
> 2008/4/13, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com
> <mailto:schivmeister at gmail.com> <mailto:schivmeister at gmail.com
> <mailto:schivmeister at gmail.com>>>:
>
> Since when is Ardour exclusively "part of GNOME"? IMHO that's
> something very minor, but I definitely agree on the KISS
> principle
> of language and navigation although I'm not a developer.
> Doesn't
> look like a priority, but may be suitable for the TODO list.
>
> On 13/04/2008, *Piotr Zaryk* <pzaryk at gmail.com
> <mailto:pzaryk at gmail.com>
> <mailto:pzaryk at gmail.com <mailto:pzaryk at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a little suggestion for the Ardour GUI. For a
> professional look and usability it would be great to
> change a
> few things: do not repeat words in the interface that are
> included in the tab name or higher category (for ex. menu
> Edit>Nudge>(Nudge) Forward). The 'nudge' in the bracket
> should
> be removed. Im am a member of a professional GNOME/Mozilla
> translators team Aviary.pl and our standards include this
> recommendation. Ardour is a part of GNOME and the standards
> tells about KISS and the language economy. The Less
> words, the
> more interface is clear and professional.
> I could change the strings myself but would like to
> know
> how to do that. Should I use Glade and edit some files
> or only
> the change of a pot file is needed?
> What do you thing about it?
>
> -- Best Regards,
> Piotr Zaryk
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