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Re: [PATCH] simplied right click menu icons

 

On 7/18/2017 11:46 AM, firewalker wrote:
> Something containing Left and Right is easier to translate I believe.
> Leftwise and Rightwise perhaps?

I cannot ever recall the terms "leftwise" and "rightwise" ever being
used in the English language.  I think this would be confusing for
native English speakers.

> 
> For example in Greek "clockwise" and "counter clockwise" need many words
> to describe.
> 
> "Clockwise" is: "Σύμφωνα με τους δείκτες του ρολογιού"

And I thought English was an excessively wordy language. ;)

> 
> But
> 
> "Leftwise" is: "Αριστερόστροφα"
> "Rightwise" is: "Δεξιόστροφα"
> 
> Both single words.

This probably should be left to the knowledge of the translators rather
than try to come up with an English string that works in all cases
(which is doubtful).  I would think someone translating "clockwise" and
"counter clockwise" to Greek would use your "rightwise" and "leftwise"
translations.  I'm assuming that is how the direction of a clock's
movement is defined in Greek.

> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 7/18/2017 11:00 AM, jp charras wrote:
>     > Le 18/07/2017 à 16:31, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>     >> I'm fine with the icon improvements.  The rotate menu entry string
>     >> changes are technically incorrect.  The rotation angle is user
>     >> configurable and may not always be 90 degrees so "Rotate 90 deg CW" is
>     >> not always going to be correct.  That is why there is no rotation angle
>     >> in the current string.  I would rather the string be "Rotate Clockwise"
>     >> or create the appropriate string at run time using the current user
>     >> rotation setting to "Rotate 45.0 deg Clockwise".  Also, "CW" may not be
>     >> understood as clockwise or easily translatable in all languages.  I
>     >> guess we cannot use the degrees character '°' due to font issues.  It
>     >> would be nice to use the symbol rather than spell it out so the menu
>     >> string doesn't get too long.
>     >
>     > I confirm:
>     > * CW and CCW and not really translatable. (the best way is to have 2 different icons)
> 
>     What about "clockwise" and "counter clockwise", are they translatable?
>     I imagine they would be.  I prefer to avoid abbreviations except for
>     units whenever possible for this reason.
> 
>     > * the degrees character '°' is not accepted in strings to
>     translate by our translation tools.
>     > AFAIK, only ASCII7 chars are accepted.
>     >
>     >>
>     >> On 7/4/2017 12:03 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>     >>> Hello,
>     >>> following up on the ongoing effort of reducing kicad icons and
>     making
>     >>> kicad UI more usable I am sending this patch.
>     >>>
>     >>> Essentially this patch simplify several icons of the right click
>     menu
>     >>> of both eeschema, pcbnew and lib component SW.
>     >>>
>     >>> Few minor icon look improvements  are also present.
>     >>>
>     >>> Cheers
>     >>> Fabrizio
>     >>>
>     >>>
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