[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Use normal English elide in place of ellipsize

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 04.02.14 15:45, Barry Scott (barry.scott at onelan.co.uk) wrote:

> On Tue 04 Feb 2014 19:36:34 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Tue,  4 Feb 2014 15:31:58 +0000
> > 
> > Barry Scott <barry.scott at onelan.co.uk> пишет:
> > > Change the messages output and also all internal
> > > function names and variables to match.
> > 
> > As a non-native English speaker I must admit ellipsize was more
> > understandable. I am not sure I would understand "elide" if it was not
> > used in this context.
> 
> Ellipsize is not in any dictionary for any language.

Note that "ellipsize" is what gtk uses for this kind of thing:

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-ellipsize

Pango calls this "ellipsize" too:

https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/pango-Layout-Objects.html#pango-layout-set-ellipsize

And so does Android:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setEllipsize%28android.text.TextUtils.TruncateAt%29

Quite frankly, I am pretty strongly against introducing new vocabulary
here, if the word "ellipsize" appears to be pretty universally
established for this kind of thing... I mean, this is not something new
we are invented, this simply reused pre-existing technical wording...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat