vaguely formulated strings, procedure?

l10n
#1

Hello all,

What is the correct (and productive) workflow procedure if the UI string is just vaguely formulated? Not incorrect as such, just vague, inconcrete, overly cryptic?

E.g., in Writer's 'Edit paragraph style' dialog, 'Alignment' tab, 'Last line' combobox (activated if 'alignment' is set to 'Justified'), the 1st variant is 'Default'.
Choosing the 'Default' there left-aligns the last line of the justified paragraph (predicted by the graphic preview, too). This string is definitely asking to be changed to 'Left'. There are similar examples, I believe.

-Yury

#2

Hi Yury,

Hello all,

What is the correct (and productive) workflow procedure if the UI string
is just vaguely formulated? Not incorrect as such, just vague,
inconcrete, overly cryptic?

E.g., in Writer's 'Edit paragraph style' dialog, 'Alignment' tab, 'Last
line' combobox (activated if 'alignment' is set to 'Justified'), the 1st
variant is 'Default'.
Choosing the 'Default' there left-aligns the last line of the justified
paragraph (predicted by the graphic preview, too). This string is
definitely asking to be changed to 'Left'. There are similar examples, I
believe.

The best is to fill an enhancement request in BZ and send a mail to the
UX project list so they can have a look to the bug.

Cheers
Sophie

#3

Hi Yury,

E.g., in Writer's 'Edit paragraph style' dialog, 'Alignment' tab, 'Last
line' combobox (activated if 'alignment' is set to 'Justified'), the 1st
variant is 'Default'.

I happen to see the word 'Left' in 500beta1.
So maybe that one already has been improved?

For the rest: good to do!
Thanks,
Cor

#4

It is Left, when you don't have CTL languages enabled. Otherwise it is
Default, because in case of RTL paragraph, it will be aligned to right
to to left, when you choose Default.

Regards,
Andras

#5

Probably Start (and similarly End for the opposite direction) would be
more descriptive and direction neutral string.

Regards,
Khaled

#6

Re Khaled's comment, too:

Then, 'Standard', or, even, something to the tune of 'Standard for your language/input direction'?

Translators have to plod through myriads of those 'Default' strings, which may or may be not explained in help files.

-Yury