debconf PO translations for the package gnome-menus

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Fri Jul 20 05:29:02 UTC 2007


Quoting Linas Žvirblis (0x0007 at gmail.com):
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> Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > The maintainers of the gnome-menu package plan adding a few entries to the
> > "standard" GNOME menu (which is translated in GNOME, outside Debian), to
> > split the Games submenu when needed.
> 
> I am not sure this is the right place, but I have a few comments:

These should probably have gone to the package maintainers. I've just
been relaying the call for translation updates, here.

Hence, CC'ing them.

You rsuggestions could even be reported as a wishlist bug but maybe
wait for the first release of gnome-menus that implements this new
feature, probably..:)


> 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/BlocksGames.directory.in.h:1
> > msgid "Falling blocks"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> Why "Falling blocks", instead of simply "Blocks", which is now an
> official section in Debian Menu? Consistency is always a good thing.
> 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/KidsGames.directory.in.h:1
> > msgid "Games for kids"
> > msgstr ""
> > 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/KidsGames.directory.in.h:2
> > msgid "Kids"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> Classifying games by audience is very subjective, and therefore highly
> inaccurate. It might make sense to label some games as inappropriate for
> children because of excessive violence, etc., but otherwise this makes
> no sense. 90% of the games we have in Debian are suitable both for
> children and adults.
> 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/LogicGames.directory.in.h:1
> > msgid "Logic"
> > msgstr ""
> > 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/LogicGames.directory.in.h:2
> > msgid "Logic and puzzle games"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> So why not "Puzzles" as it is in Menu Policy?
> 
> > 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/RolePlayingGames.directory.in.h:1
> > msgid "Role playing"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> We have way too few role playing games for them to be separate from
> adventure games. Total number of adventure and RPG games in Debian is
> around 40 vs. hundreds of action games.
> 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/SimulationGames.directory.in.h:1
> > msgid "Simulation"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> [...]
> 
> > #: ../../debian/desktop-files/SportsGames.directory.in.h:1
> > msgid "Sports"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> Sports games _are_ simulation games (most of the time). It does not
> define the type of the game, only content. Also we have 8 or so sports
> games in Debian. These were the reasons for removal of Sports section
> from Menu Policy.
> 
> Merging of Debian and XDG menus is currently being discussed, so we
> should not make that harder by making them incompatible. In fact, we
> could just go ahead and adopt Debian Menu structure inside GNOME, KDE,
> and friends.
> 
> Regards,
> Linas
> 
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