Re: Request for English debconf template review
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > But your other message made me think a bit more about this, and I realize
> > that the size can easily be brought down by splitting the display manager
> > paragraph into a separate debconf note:
> > - if $DISPLAY is not set in the environment, automatically include
> > xdm/kdm/wdm in the service list without warning
> > - if $DISPLAY is set in the environment, automatically exclude these
> > services from the list, but show a second debconf question informing the
> > user that they need to be restarted.
> > Does this sound reasonable?
> > New draft debconf templates that implement this are attached.
> Both the wording and the design are fine by me. I would just recommend
> dropping the double spaces after sentence dots, as we usually do for
> other templates (this use of double spaces is quite debated with no
> real strong arguments in favor of one or another option....and we
> finally settled on recommending single spaces).
Sorry, I consider single-spacing of sentences a loss of information about
the structure of the text. If you want debconf to condense double-spacing
of sentences to single-spacing for display that's fine with me, but asking
me to single space my sentences in the source string falls into the category
of "things Debian doesn't have the authority to ask a native speaker to
standardize unless they agree with my standard." :-)
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