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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2018-02-08 <20%2018%2002%2008> 6:53 GMT+01:00 Carsten Schoenert <
c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
>
> Am 08.02.2018 um 01:06 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
> > I also thinks that adding "by Kicad" does not add any information. It
> > only complicates the already long description.
>
> I disagree here and think the attempt of Marco is correct. Slightly
> modifications of translated strings I've done several times in the past
> for German exact for that reason Marco is mentioning.
>
> Please keep in mind that experienced users probably don't really read
> the full text of the various information strings as they have seen this
> for several times already.
> But the not well experienced or new users have problems on these not
> specific information or hints. I've meet people who asked me things that
> are not explained well enough. Even me it happens that I need to look
> sometimes into the code to see and understand whats going on here.
>

But this is also because you probably don't have the rest of the GUI
context when you are translating.


> There is always a main question for doing things, which one is using
> this in the end. GUI parts are made for users, algorithms are for coders
> and programmers.
>
> The Python folks have there own Zen of Python [1], one of there rule is
>
> "Explicit is better than implicit."
>
> that was coming directly to my mind while I've read Marcos question.
>
>
> [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
>
> --
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert
>
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