Re: [Synaptic-devel] Few issues

[Michael Vogt]

Hi Jean-Michael,

sorry for my late reply.

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:43:09PM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Thanks a lot for releasing .deb packages for the latest Synaptic. I played 
> around and discovered a few issues.

Thanks for working with it and finding and reporting bugs :)
 
> 1) When clicking on a package, the following messages displays in the bottom 
> panel:
> 
> Installed: Version : XXXX
> Latest version : version : YYYY
> 
> These strings cannot be easily translated into French. In English, 
> "Installed" 
> can be singular or plural. Here, it is singular ("installé"). The problem is 
> that "Installed" is used again in Synaptics with a plural meaning 
> ("Installés").
> 
> IMHO, it would be better to write:
> Installed -> "Installed package"
> Latest version -> "Latest available"

I'm discussing this with Sebastian and it looks like the problem is,
that we loose alignments here if we go for a combined string. But now
we are aware of the problem and we are trying to find a solution that
both handles the alignment and make the translation easier.

> 2) State    "Installed package" is not aligned with other labels.

This is a limitation of the current icons. Once we have enough good
looking and easy to distinguish icons there will always be a icon that
displays the status and the alignmed is will be ok. 

> 3) Display menu
> If you choose "by State" and choose another display menu, "by State" remains.

Thanks, fixed in the repository.


thanks,
 Michael

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