german translation for shortcuts #1870
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juli-99
requested review from
BFH-ktt1,
davidhutchens,
maehne,
MarcinOrlowski and
zdimension
as code owners
| hotkeyAutoLabelOpen = Label bearbeiten | ||
| hotkeyAutoLabelToggle = Label sichtbarkei umschalten | ||
| hotkeyAutoLabelView = Label anzeigen | ||
| hotkeyAutoLabelHide = Label ausblenden | ||
| # ==> hotkeyAutoLabelSelfNumberedStop = |
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I could not think of a good translation for "End Self Numbered Function".
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I took some time today to actually understand the context of AutoLabelSelfNumberStop. Here is how you can observe its use.
Open a new document. Select a component with a label: I picked a register. Drag one out toward the canvas but do not drop it. Press the lower case L. A popup allows you to enter a label. Pick a label ending in a number: I picked "R1". Now drop the component. It should show with the selected label. Now drag another one onto the canvas and drop it. It should show with the next label, e.g. "R2". Each new one increments the number.
Now suppose you wish to drag one out and not label it. While dragging, press lower case A. That is the AutoLabelSelfNumberStop issue. When you drop it, it is not labeled.
@juli-99 and @MarcinOrlowski: I propose "Stop auto-numbering labels" as a better description in English. But @MarcinOrlowski is correct that getting the context for translation in a short description is pretty difficult. This panel is not the documentation for how to use the key. It allows someone that knows how to use the key to change the key to use.
Note that the Label open action (L) works as described above if using it while dragging out the component. But it also works to apply a label on a selected component that is already placed, but does not start auto-numbering in that case. Many of these keys can also be used on selected items already placed on the canvas.
| hotkeyProjMoveUp = Schaltung nach oben | ||
| hotkeyProjMoveDown = Schaltung nach unten |
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I'm not happy with this translation because without the context it is difficult to guess what it does.
The English versions "Move the Circuit Up Layer" and "the Circuit Down Layer" are not that great either.
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The actual menu items in English are "Move Circuit Up" and "Move Circuit Down"
As I mentioned in #1861, the name in the panel should match the name in the menu. So this should be changed to "Move circuit up" (or "down") to match the case as done in #1861. The same concept should likely apply in the other languages. @MarcinOrlowski: could you change this in #1861? Or alternatively, would it work to actually take the string from the menu item and not duplicate the information?
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@davidhutchens Done as requrested.
BTW: to be honest I got a feeling the "English" strings for that sections are low quality and somehow slipped by during the review.
Or alternatively, would it work to actually take the string from the menu item and not duplicate the information?
I am not fully convinced this is a good idea. This kind of "optimizations" sometimes bites back when you try to translate the strings. What we do lack is context so the translators can ensure they see what they do which is not always the case. Not sure how to approach that.
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@MarcinOrlowski: I don't do translation to non-English languages, but I can appreciate why trying to automatically generate strings could cause problems.
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