[i18n] [Bug 339085] New: misleading translation of "always (Breaks minimization)" in desktop effects -> advanced -> keep window thumbnails

[Bernd]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339085

            Bug ID: 339085
           Summary: misleading translation of "always (Breaks
                    minimization)" in desktop effects -> advanced -> keep
                    window thumbnails
           Product: i18n
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: de
          Assignee: kde-i18n-de at kde.org
          Reporter: prof7bit at gmail.com

desktop effects -> advanced -> keep window thumbnails -> "always (Breaks
minimization)"

 is translates as

"Immer (Verhindert Ressourcen-Minimierung)"

This is grossly misleading, this does not refer to "Ressources", this affects
(or prevents) the minimization of the window itself, it changes behavior. It
should be translated as "Immer (Verhindert Fenster-Minimierung)"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. switch language to DE (German)
2. Go to desktop effects -> advanced and look at the dropdown "keep window
thumbnails"
3. Observe the misleading translation "Verhindert Ressourcen-Minimierung"


Actual Results:  
I have just spent some time hunting a strange "bug" where my program did not
receive any window-state notifications on minimize/maximize. I finally found
this setting to be the reason. From the wording "Verhindert
Resourcem-Minimierung" it initially appeared to me to refer to harmless things
like memory consumption when I activated. Thats why I did not immediately
remember having any setting activated that would break **window** minimization
itself.

After finding this seemingly not so obvious setting to be the reason for my
"bug" I wanted to document it for other users, switched language to english and
made a screenshot and suddenly the option was labeled crystal clear and
unmistakably: "breaks minimization!"

Expected Results:  
Please change translation to "Immer (Verhindert Fenster-Minimierung)" because
thats what actually happens when this is active: the windows are actually not
minimized at all anymore, they are just moved to an invisible plane while
continuing to be open, thats why they never receive any state change signals
when minimizing.

The english wording describes this crystal clear and leaves no doubt about what
actually happens: "breaks minimization" (i. e. something will not work anymore
(broken) when you activate this)

The German wording merely sounds like it would just consume more resources
which may seems harmless or even irrelevant for people with powerful machines
but this is actually not the case, it really entirely disables a feature, it
changes (breaks) behavior and affects compatibility with some applications that
rely on it (for example Lazarus-IDE which will not minimize its tool windows
anymore when the main window is minimized because it just can't detect this
anymore). 

The German translation of this option should try to communicate this as clearly
as the English version already does.

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