Update gfxboot-theme-ubuntu translations to shorten menu strings

Bug #999071 reported by Eduard Gotwig
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson
Precise
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Hey,

the strings are often , in over 30 languages curently, too long for the menu, so users can't see them at that low boot resolution.

The strings should be shorter, if not: users CAN'T read the boot options from the liveusb or livecd.

I reported that at the Ubuntu Translator Mailinglist, but it was too late for Ubuntu 12.04.

You can see the new, not yet used, translations here:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/+pots/bootloader

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This should be fixed in Ubuntu, not just in Elementary OS. Adding bug tasks.

summary: - Use the newest gfxboot-theme-ubuntu translations, not these from ubuntu
- 12.04
+ Update gfxboot-theme-ubuntu translations to shorten menu strings
Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-12.04.1
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I'm updating translations from Launchpad as available. Please do not reopen this bug just because some particular language still has overly-long strings, though, as I *cannot fix these*; all I can do is update the translations to whatever's current in Launchpad. If you want further improvements, please contact translators directly to update their strings; only once that's been done does it make any sense to reopen this bug (and even then there are probably better workflows than playing close/reopen games).

Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gfxboot-theme-ubuntu - 0.14.2

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gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.14.2) quantal; urgency=low

  * Update translations from Launchpad (LP: #999071).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:50:51 -0700

Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Eduard, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gfxboot-theme-ubuntu into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → In Progress
description: updated
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Gotwig, could you build an ISO image with ubuntu -proposed enabled and see if this upload fixes the issue? I suppose the repo has to be enabled on host.
If you can't use scripts from lp:ubuntu-cdimage, try building an elementary OS image with Congrego, it uses gfxboot-theme-ubuntu too. I hope it will be a sufficient test for verifying the fix.

Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)
no longer affects: elementaryos
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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote :

Do you know if its now included in ubuntu-updates instead of proposed?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

@Eduard: no, nothing has verified that update, it will not get out of staging until that's done

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the details of the languages having an issue is on https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2012-April/005367.html it seems

we should probably just confirm that there is no visible regression there, it's only translations updates...

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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote :

Works with proposed.

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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote :

Works with precise-proposed , thanks.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Okay, so Eduard tested the fix and it doesn't cause any visible regressions. Shall I mark it verification-done?

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gfxboot-theme-ubuntu - 0.13.3

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gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.13.3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Update translations from Launchpad (LP: #999071).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:54:01 -0700

Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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