[kde-doc-english] Documentation Status and Todo's for 4.11

[David Palser]

Hi,

I have had a check through New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors
for the words in preferred_forms file. Many of the more computing
specific terms are not listed, but those that are I have put in the
attached file.

The dictionary is for UK English, not US English.

I am not suggesting KDE should follow New Oxford Dictionary, KDE can
have its own style, but whatever style is decided on should be followed
consistently.

best regards,

David


On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 22:02 +0200, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 18:10:25 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> > Readding the list since others hopefully will have comments...
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote:
> > > Here a list of missing gui elements from the 3.5 visual dictionary -most
> > > of
> > > them covered by Claus' version on userbase:
> > > Button, Check Box, Color Selector, Combo Box, Context Menu, Dialog Box,
> > > Drop Down Box, Icon List, List Box, Progress Bar, Radio Button, Scrollbar
> > > or Scroll Bar?, Slider, Spin Box, Tab, Tabbed Window, Text Box
> > 
> > I've filled in the dictionary part for all these missing items now,
> > except for Tabbed Window.  I'm not aware of any use of tabs that are
> > not in such a configuration, so it seemed rather redundant.
> > 
> > I also decided to distinguish a Text Box (e.g. QLineEdit) from a Text
> > Area (e.g. QTextEdit) because IMHO there are enough differences in
> > appearance and behavior (e.g. what happens when you press Enter) to
> > warrant distinguishing the two.
> > 
> Makes sense to me
> 
> > Is everyone okay with these two modifications?  Is the draft [1]
> > missing any other widgets?  Please also have a look at the
> > descriptions and suggest any improvements, some of them came out a
> > little awkward and I'm not sure exactly how best to fix.
> > 
> Some minor issues:
> 
> * Reducing the width of the window leads to many line breaks in Description 
> column of the table and make the text difficult to read. Could you make the 
> Screenshot column  narrower ?
> 
> * Regarding the wording/spelling of the widgets (scrollbar vs scroll bar etc.) 
> I have attached the file preferred_forms used on english.breakfast.org to check 
> the docbooks and a statistic from stable (4,10) of all widget names and their 
> spelling. Of course we should sync this spelling with ebn.
> 
> * Should we use the "The Plasma Desktop" section from  
> http://userbase.kde.org/User:Claus_chr/Visual_Dictionary ?
> 
> Apart from that I am ok with your proposal.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Preferred forms from New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors.



cannot - except where used as - can not only...but also...

fine-tune - as a verb

infrared

lower case

pop-up - as adjective
pop up - as verb

preset

screen saver

sidebar

spellcheck
spelling checker

to-do

toolbar

upper case

web page