kozec / syncthing-gtk

GTK3 & python based GUI for Syncthing
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First run wizard german translation #465

Closed culmat closed 6 years ago

culmat commented 6 years ago

syncting-gtk-intro-german-2018-07-21 22-32-59

Text says Zurück - should be Weiter as on the button? Text says Quit - should be Beenden as on the button?

See #150

kozec commented 6 years ago

I kinda hoped for someone who actually speak German to chime in, but now when I looking at it, this may be different problem.

Buttons on top are provided by GTK and using system-wide language files. Text is from ST-GTK. And what that system-wide translation says differs from distro to distro and from version to version. So fixing it here means breaking it for someone else.

May I assume you are using as recent as possible release of your distro of choice?

acolomb commented 6 years ago

I do speak German and can confirm that "Zurück" is the wrong word, not even a synonym of the correct meaning (continue).

May I suggest to avoid mentioning the button labels altogether? Just say "please continue to create the configuration file..." and "abort this dialog". The user will be competent enough to click on some corresponding button as they're used to on that platform.

Of course thus solution must be done upstream and trickle back down into the translations.

kozec commented 6 years ago

That may work, I can even "rig" translation temporary so it displays old message where new text is not yet translated.