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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1584446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu German Translators (ubuntu-l10n-de)

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Title:
  German translation in window menues creates duplicate accelerator key

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New

Bug description:
  Starting with Ubuntu 16.04, window menues (minimize, maximize, close,
  etc) have new translations in German. Instead of the quite literal
  translations “maximieren” and “minimieren”, those menues now read
  “ver_kleinern”, “ver_größern”, […], “_Größe ändern”. This creates two
  problems:

  1) “verkleinern” and “vergrößern” refer to relative changes in size,
  i.e. “decrease” and “increase”, whereas the menue items have an
  absolute effect on the window size, i.e. “minimize” and “maximize”,
  which is not clear from reading the menue. Also, “Größe ändern” means
  “change size” and may create confusion as to how this exact menue item
  will resize the window, in contrast to the other two.

  2) Chosing g as the accelerator key for “vergrößern” creates a
  duplicate with “Größe ändern” and breaks the workflow of e.g. hitting
  alt+space, x for maximize and will require hitting G once or twice and
  enter once as a shortcut, whereas the previous translation required
  less keystrokes. This may sound nitpicky and it is, but we're talking
  about accelerator keys here. Their purpose is somewhat lost if their
  usage becomes too slow and they can't be used reliably with muscle
  memory.

  Humble solution to those problems: Restore translations to
  “minimieren” and “maximieren” from before, which may not be as elegant
  a translation but will make menue actions clear and faster again.

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