[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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