"Hit apply to update" string

l10n
#1

Well, whoever typed this must have meant to type whatever would send
the message :wink:

       If this typist had edited his message before posting, then he could
have corrected the error;
          but, alas, editing seems to be an out-dated idea in this world of
ever increasing speed to accomplish whatever even though oftentimes taking
the time to edit saves time in the long-run by avoiding having to redo the
project to correct the errors.

#2

Your explanation, while lingually flawless, would confuse the askers, too, I guess. :slight_smile:

The string means that for updates to take effect one must press/click something (button?) labelled 'Apply'.

-Yury

        Well, whoever typed this must have meant to type whatever would send
the message :wink:

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#3

I see my question should have been clearer - so: is the string
incorrect because there is no "apply" to be hit (and the string should
be modified), or am I missing anything?

Sorry for bothering the list with such a marginal string (which is
maybe even not shown in UI), but I don't like any blind translation.

Stanislav

#4

There are (still) lots of artifacts of a string kind in LO, I believe.

However, if you do not know the string is actually displayed, how do you know there is nothing appropriate to click?

Generally -- is there any way to mark the actually unused strings, so as to waste not the effort? Some script processing the sources?..

-Yury

I see my question should have been clearer - so: is the string
incorrect because there is no "apply" to be hit (and the string should
be modified), or am I missing anything?

Sorry for bothering the list with such a marginal string (which is
maybe even not shown in UI), but I don't like any blind translation.

...

#5

Hi,

Dne 19.1.2016 v 15:16 Yury Tarasievich napsal(a):

There are (still) lots of artifacts of a string kind in LO, I believe.

However, if you do not know the string is actually displayed, how do you
know there is nothing appropriate to click?

because the string is on the Online update page and it can be seen by displaying the file cui/uiconfig/ui/optonlineupdatepage.ui in Glade.

Generally -- is there any way to mark the actually unused strings, so as
to waste not the effort? Some script processing the sources?..

I suppose the best way is to fix the problem directly in the source code (or to file a bugzilla report if I am not able to do so myself).

Best regards,
Stanislav

#6

Hello Anne-ology,

I'm top-posting on this thread with purpose. You are on the localization (l10n) mailing list. Do you even understand the conversation you have jumped into? It is a technical exchange, not people who do not know what they type.

Besides that, people on mailing lists and elsewhere on the Internet rely on a common set of rules and customs that are considered useful and even polite since about the late seventies. It's called the Netiquette: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php Top posting, not replying inline of the messages like you do are things that confuse or bother posters. Do you think you could make an effort in following these standards, at least when posting on our mailing lists?

Thank you,

Charles.

#7

Tom,

Interesting reaction but I am afraid we are bothing peope doing real work here.
Anne-ology, you and I are the ONLY three people top posting in this thread. The others seem to follow the netiquette. Are they out-dated? Are the majority of posters posting correctly on the LibreOffice mailing lists outdated and irrelevant? I do not think so. On top of that, Anne-ology's replies are always visually odd with random line breaks and indents that are simply bothersome and hickack entire threads. She is the only person who does that to my knowledge.

Last but not least this list is not the users list Tom. Please don't tell me about ne users . This mailing list is not a place for new users, it is the l10n list.

As for my post being off topic: of course it was, since Anne-ology post was clearly off topic itself and that was my first comment on it.

Charles.

#8

This is getting confused...
Yes, I'm top posting, I'm using a phone right now.
Whatever, it would be nice to get back to the original question. I think.

Cheers,
Sylvia

#9

My apologies, but I'd like to offer some corrections to this -- assuredly off-topic -- thread.

Interesting reaction but I am afraid we are bothing peope doing real work here.
Anne-ology, you and I are the ONLY three people top posting in this thread. The others seem to follow the netiquette. Are they out-dated? Are the majority of posters

It's not the top-posting that's the problem, the problem is the top-posting dragging the complete preceding thread with it.

The bottom-posting (or whatever it's called) can be bothersome just as well, if the quoter (or quoter's software) can't make the right choices about how to and what to... well, quote. In the winded discussions, always.

And may I remind you, that the breaks and indents (as well as the person's letteredness) aren't the netiquette topics?

-Yury

#10

Charles,
Please refrain from such off-topic posts. Top-posting is the only way
almost all new and potential users have any knowledge of or experience
with so they tend to assume that any non-top-posts are empty, either
deliberately or accidentally. The nettiqutte link is so out-dated
that it pre-dates hand-helds (phones, tablets and slates) which
allegedly now accounts for around 80% of computer usage and none of
which allow for anything other than top-posting. Until you are able
to convince the majority of the makers of hand-helds to allow people
to do things the old ways it seems unfair to exclude people from such
a large potential (yet untapped) market. It might be easier to just
return us to three decades before the end of the last century, and
there is a LOT of appeal in that - except that we would then have to
live through the 80's again!

Anyway, Charles' post is going off-topic into some ancient fantasy.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: