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keyboard shortcut overlay needs more consistent wording

Bug #964673 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
New
Undecided
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Unity
Fix Released
Low
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unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

I'm submitting a merge proposal to go with this.

The keyboard shortcut overlay (when you hold down the Windows key) has several wording issues:

- Inconsistent verb tenses ("open" and "opens")
- Minimise (Minimize is the correct spelling in US English, which is what the C locale should use)
- Super (Press) is confusing; changing the text to Super (Hold) makes it more clear that holding down the Super key will show the overlay
- Cursor keys; I think a typical person calls them arrow keys

This won't affect ubuntu-docs, but it does create new strings for the translators.

Translators notified:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2012-April/005297.html

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 201084ed41ea7548f8becd47fa4d1e6c
CheckboxSystem: c541d13ea4f205f2fd751f76ed21105b
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Sun Mar 25 13:19:15 2012SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

See original description

Related branches

lp:~jbicha/unity/lp964673-improve-keyboard-shortcut-overlay-wording
Rejected for merging into lp:unity
John Lea (community): Needs Information (design)
Tim Penhey (community): Approve
Diff: 152 lines (+39/-39)
2 files modified
plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp (+20/-20)
shortcuts/StandaloneShortcuts.cpp (+19/-19)
lp:~brandontschaefer/unity/improve-keyboard-shortcut-overlay-wording
Thomi Richards (community): Approve (quality)
John Lea (community): Needs Fixing
Matt Price (community): Approve (copy review)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Approve
MC Return (community): Approve
Diff: 507 lines (+375/-72)
2 files modified
plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp (+192/-34)
shortcuts/StandaloneShortcuts.cpp (+183/-38)
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

I can confirm this is an inconsistency in the words used in the shortcut overlay.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

Can we set the milestone to Unity 5.10 since the work is already done and only requires merging? This is something small but still an inconsistency. Of course this is only after we get the design input from John Lea or the Ayatana team.

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

This needs a UIFe, until we don't get the ok for that we can't merge.

Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Seeing that while they might be necessary to provide better wording on the original strings, the changes should probably not affect the translations, so from the translations team I'd say +1 only if:

* The package additionally provides a one-off patch that:
  - Includes the latest translations from Launchpad (i.e. the PO files for all languages)
  - Replaces the strings that that change touches to all 'msgid' fields in the PO files. The translations themselves in the PO files ('msgstr' fields can be left untouched)

Once the package has been uploaded, the translations will have been imported into Launchpad and the patch can be dropped on the next upload.

I know it's a pain to do this, but the changes really touch a lot of strings that will break quite a lot of translations otherwise.

Changed in ubuntu-translations:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Omer Akram (om26er)
summary: - [UIFe] keyboard shortcut overlay needs more consistent wording
+ keyboard shortcut overlay needs more consistent wording
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

This was merged 2012-08-27 and shipped in Ubuntu 12.10, the Fix is as Released as it's going to get.

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
no longer affects: ubuntu-translations
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