[Mageia-dev] [Bug 1793] System tool text needs proofreading

Olav Dahlum odahlum at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 08:57:59 CEST 2011


On 15/06/11 01:32, Barry Jackson wrote:
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1793
> 
> --- Comment #5 from Barry Jackson <zen25000 at zen.co.uk> 2011-06-15 03:32:08 CEST ---
> Comment on attachment 563
>   --> https://bugs.mageia.org/attachment.cgi?id=563
> Patched English strings for Live installer
> 
> -msgid "Do you want to save /etc/fstab modifications"
> +msgid "Do you wish to save the changes to your fstab modifications"
> 
> The original makes sense the changed version does not.
> 

Could we also try to avoid using exclamation marks? We don't need
to shout our messages all over the place...

I would also recommend to cut the personal chatter in the strings,
and just write something like this:

"+"Should users be permitted to share their folders?\n""

A bit cold, but very professional. :-)

Sincerely,
Olav Dahlum


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