Default-Labels in Libre-Office (Writer)

l10n
#1

Hi,

today I read an interesting article (1) about very specific problems of
school children (project Reglue - Ken Starks).

Ken Starks suggested a little tweak in the "Save As" dialog and I
thought - well - that should be easy enough.

Please is there anyone who can answer the following questions:

1. US-english seems to be the "default translation" so in order to
   change a label one has to download and edit the apropriate file from
   http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/l10n/latest-pot/ (and convince the
   community that this are important changes)

2. Does anybody know why the label "File type:" (in the Save-Dialog) is
   only visible when the look'n feel is "gen" (=windows) or "kde4", but
   invisible with "gtk" or "gtk3"?

I know, question (2) is a little bit technical but since the focus
point is exactly that label...

#2

Hi Martin,

In general I agree with the need for clarity in the UI but I think on this occasion, I don't think this is a LO issue. Once past File > Save (As), I think the UI passes to the operating system. I opened mine (Win 10) and spotted a truncation in the "Save a file of this type" string so I figured I'd fix it but it's not part of LibreOffice at all but Windows 10.

So I suspect to fix this, you'd have to look at getting the Linux UI tweaked.

But better wait for someone else to chip in, this is just a suspicion, I might have missed something.

Michael

Sgrìobh Martin Schneeweis na leanas 31/12/2015 aig 15:59:

#3

Hi Michael,

thank you for the answer - may be I should clarify that I did not post
on this list because I wanted anybody to change something - I posted on
this list because I thought may be someone can help me understand the
whole text thingy a little better.

Yes, I know that the file dialogs are provided by the operating system,
but if I am not mistaken, some aspects of the dialog (window title,
field labels, ...) are parameterized by LO.

The missing "File type:" label on linux (gnome) may well be a gtk
error, in any case, this would be the wrong list (I just thought maybe
someone knows about that probleme (or if that is intentional) - it's a
missing text after all (I did not find any bug mentioning that missing
text)).

Thanks again and happy new year,
Martin

#4

You may be the first one to spot it missing in gtk. I must admit I've never noticed the discrepancy. I'd try filing a query on gnome.

Michael

Sgrìobh Martin Schneeweis na leanas 31/12/2015 aig 16:52: