Ambiguous GUI label "Capture" for map editing tools

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Author Name: artfwo - (artfwo -)
Original Redmine Issue: 1354

Redmine category:gui
Assignee: Tim Sutton

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The GUI labels for map editing tools "Capture Point", "Capture Polygon", etc. are considered ambiguous and unclear by quite a number of QGIS users, as pointed in this discussion (in Russian):
[http://gis-lab.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2554]

As suggested in the same discussion, these labels may be replaced by something like "New Point", "New Polygon", or perhaps "Create Point", "Create Polygon", etc. for better usability.

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Author Name: Tim Sutton (Tim Sutton)

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Is the ambiguity in the English or in the Russian translation? As a native english speaker I dont find the terms to be ambiguous. If the problem is in the Russian translation, I suggest to coordinate with the Russian translators to use a term more appropriate in your language for the russian .ts.

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Author Name: Maxim Dubinin (@simgislab)

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We had a big discussion about it on the forum (with author of the translation). The word "capture" if translated directly in Russian relates to old days of digitizers and light-tables. The author of the translation suggested, that before changing Russian version, which we were trying to push him to change to something equivalent to "New" or "Create" as more generic, it would also be nice to change English ones first.

I'm not a native english speaker, but neither of the GIS software I used is using this term. Even in the GRASS plugin "New" point/line/polygons are used, instead of "Capture". But this up to you, I'm more concerned about Russian of course.

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Author Name: cdavilam - (cdavilam -)

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As Spanish speaker and translator, I also find "Create" or "New" would be better terms than "Capture", but if it is OK in English I can just translate them as I think is better to Spanish users.

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Author Name: Tim Sutton (Tim Sutton)

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Closing this. Changing the english version will cause unneeded disruption to existing documentation and tutorials when the term is already well suited to its task. Translators should feel free to use terminology most appropriate to their language.

Thanks

Tim

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• resolution was changed from to wontfix
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Anónimo (Anónimo)

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Milestone Version 1.1.0 deleted