Re: A bunch of minor issues

On 26.9.2007, at 14.26, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> Dave Page
>> As you know I work in OS X and Windows most of the time and I know
>> there
>> are no sizing issues there in English. Is this something specific to
>> running in Finnish (should that be Fin?), or GTK do you think?

FI (or fi) should be enough (I am not sure, what you are looking for).
>
> Finnish texts do tend to more longer than English. It's not a
> problem in
> most places, but for example "Rename" in the favourites manager is
> translated to "Nimeä uudelleen", which is quite a bit longer. If we
> just
> made the space reserved for the button bigger, it would look quite
> silly
> in English I think. But as it is, the button is partly underneath the
> "Remove" button.

That translation is a literal one. If something has a name already,
"Nimeä" could be enough, it means then rename?! This is a suggestion
only, and the problem remains, some translations are bound to be
longish, in the user interface controls that will be difficult.
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