[kde-doc-english] Meaning of sentence is unclear in konversationdocumentation

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:44:17 +0300, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:

> On 2012.06.06 07:50, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
>> > I found the following text to be translated in message #1002 in the  
>> pot file
>> > of konversation in docmessages/extragear-network.
>> >
>> > This is a list of all topics that have been set for this channel  
>> while its
>> > tab was open.\n
>> > \n
>> > Duplicates, that is consecutively set topics with identical text and  
>> the
>> > same author, have been merged into a single list entry. The date and  
>> time
>> > shown is that of the last time the topic was set.\n
>> > \n
>> > When you select a topic in the list, the edit field below it will  
>> receive
>> > its text. Once you start modifying the contents of the field,  
>> however, the
>> > list will switch from the regular entry selection mode to allowing  
>> you to
>> > perform text selection on the entries in case you may wish to  
>> incorporate
>> > some of their text into the new topic. To return to entry selection  
>> mode and
>> > a synchronized edit field, undo back to the original text or close and
>> > reopen the dialog.
>> >
>> > The second sentence, which start with Duplicates is quite unclear to  
>> me.
>> Hi,
>> Actually, it is not the pure documentation question [1, line 5002].
>> I am not a native speaker, but I interpreted the second sentence as  
>> follows:
>> 1. Duplicates are the topics with identical text and the same author,  
>> have been merged into a single list entry.
>> 2. The duplicates will be merged into a single list entry.
>> 3. The date and time shown for this single entry is the date and time  
>> of the last time the topic was set.
>> Hope this helps. However, it will be good to have an opinion of some  
>> native speaker or Eike Hein himself.
>> Best regards,
>> Yuri
>> [1]  
>> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/extragear-network/konversation.pot?revision=1298368&view=markup
>
> Yuri - I absolutely agree with your interpretation.  (I am a native  
> speaker.)  Would it make sense to reword the original as:
>
> When there are multiple entries in the list with identical text and  
> author, they have been merged into a single list entry.  The date and  
> time shown for that entry are the last date and time the topic was set.
>
> Jack

Committed. Many thanks for your suggestion.

Best regards,
Yuri