distinguish between "on" and "about"

[Steve Allewell]

On 17/03/18 10:19, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 March 2018 06:45:32 CET Leslie Satenstein wrote:
>> Consider
>>
>> Chapter 1. Introduction
>> Welcome to KDE!
>> This guide will introduce you to the many features of the Plasma workspace
>> and applications and describe many common tasks you can perform.
>> For more information *on* KDE, visit the KDE website.
>>
>> You can be on topic or off topic, or you can be on a table or chair
>> But do you want        "For more information *about* KDE?"   USA uses on in
>> place of about.  The English world is larger than the USA.
> 
> Hi,
> this basic language used for the guides (and most of technical documentation 
> in English) is American English. This is the reason why another language 
> available is en_GB (others flavors - or flavours - are possible, provided that 
> there are maintainers).
> Unfortunately not all the documentation is available for en_GB.
> 
> Regards
> 

As Luigi points out, all documentation is initially written in US
English and translated to other languages or localised versions
including British English, en_GB.

As the only maintainer of the en_GB translations, time is limited, so I
focus on the application UI translations rather than the documentation.

I agree with the original question from Leslie; about would be correct
for British English, but if US English uses on in this context then that
would be correct for the untranslated/non-localised documentation.

Referring back to my earlier response on the 'on vs onto' question, even
for US English, onto still appears to be the correct form.  I notice
Yuri has now committed a change for this.

Regards

Steve