shared-mime-info's terminology

[Christian Rose]

ons 2003-11-19 klockan 16.11 skrev Christian Neumair:
> > That's excellent! You can probably start with using the guidelines for
> > descriptions in gnome-vfs/doc/mime-descriptions-guidelines.txt -- so far
> > noone has objected to using it. Also, the existing terminology and
> > spellings in gnome-mime-data can probably be a useful reference.
>
> I sat down some hours and prepared the attached patch.
> I un-expanded all the funky useless tla expansions and tried to unify
> terminology. Note that now all strings not beginning with a
> vendor/software are uncapitalized since you may want to use it within
> sentences, too.
> Could you please test this patch and tell me whether you like it from a
> translator's point of view?

Ok, below are some comments.


>    <mime-type type="application/smil">
> -    <_comment>Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language</_comment>
> +    <_comment>SMIL file</_comment>

This should probably be "SMIL source code" or "SMIL script" according to
the guidelines, depending on how it's used.


>    <mime-type type="application/vnd.sun.xml.calc">
> -    <_comment>OpenOffice spreadsheet</_comment>
> +    <_comment>OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet</_comment>
>      <glob pattern="*.sxc"/>
>    </mime-type>
>    <mime-type type="application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template">
> -    <_comment>OpenOffice spreadsheet template</_comment>
> +    <_comment>OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet template</_comment>
>      <glob pattern="*.stc"/>
>    </mime-type>
>    <mime-type type="application/vnd.sun.xml.draw">
> -    <_comment>OpenOffice drawing</_comment>
> +    <_comment>OpenOffice Draw drawing</_comment>
>      <glob pattern="*.sxd"/>
>    </mime-type>
>    <mime-type type="application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template">
> -    <_comment>OpenOffice drawing template</_comment>
> +    <_comment>OpenOffice Draw drawing template</_comment>

All these should probably say OpenOffice.org instead of just OpenOffice.


>    <mime-type type="application/x-desktop">
> -    <_comment>Desktop config file</_comment>
> +    <_comment>desktop config file</_comment>

Perhaps rather "desktop configuration file".


>    <mime-type type="application/x-dvi">
> -    <_comment>TeX Device Independent file</_comment>
> +    <_comment>TeX DeVice Independent file</_comment>

I'd rather prefer "TeX DVI file" or "TeX device independent file".


>    <mime-type type="application/x-font-type1">
> -    <_comment>Fonts</_comment>
> +    <_comment>fonts</_comment>

Should probably be "font".


>    <mime-type type="application/x-gnumeric">
> -    <_comment>GNUmeric spreadsheet</_comment>
> +    <_comment>Gnumeric workbook</_comment>

Should probably be "spreadsheet" instead.


>    <mime-type type="application/x-lhz">
> -    <_comment>LHA archive</_comment>
> +    <_comment>LHZ archive</_comment>

Should probably say "LZH archive" instead.


>    <mime-type type="image/x-ico">
> -    <_comment>MSWindows Icons</_comment>
> +    <_comment>Microsoft Windows icons</_comment>

Should perhaps be singular here.


>    <mime-type type="image/x-sun-raster">
> -    <_comment>SUN Rasterfile</_comment>
> +    <_comment>SUN Rasterfile image</_comment>

Should "rasterfile" be lowercased?


>    <mime-type type="image/x-xcf">
> -    <_comment>GIMP native image format</_comment>
> +    <_comment>GIMP document</_comment>

Perhaps s/document/image/ here.


>    <mime-type type="inode/directory">
> -    <_comment>Directory</_comment>
> +    <_comment>directory</_comment>

Should probably be "folder".


Christian