[Qgis-tr] Typo in qgis-application .ts-file

[Sveinn í Felli]

Þann mið 16.nóv 2016 15:17, skrifaði Werner Macho:
> Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
>
> Hi!
>
> As I've seen there are plenty of "..." everywhere I just wanted to
> note that I actually never really understood why this "..." exist.
> To be honest I am in favour of getting rid of them anyway because the
> do not really mean much to me.
> Probably it shows that there is something else to come ... or that
> something is processing and you have to wait ... or its just there to
> make the button (menu) longer. I dont know.
>
> If anyone knows a good explaination why such "..." exists I would
> really like to hear it. :)

See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis>

In user interfaces ellipses can be used in all of the cases you mention, 
mostly to mean that if you click on a button, then a window/dialog will 
open. Sort of to guide or to prepare the user.

But long before there were computers, there were books and printing. Use 
of ellipsis is mostly a question of writing style; a series of 
conventions to convey more meaning than only in words.

And our brains are trained to grasp these subtleties, so I wouldn't 
recommend getting rid of such conventions without a very good reason to 
do so.

Sveinn

P.S. there are whole books and pages on the internet explaining writing 
styles, some universities have their own guides - interesting read...

> kind regards
> Werner
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Sveinn í Felli <sv1 at fellsnet.is> wrote:
>> Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
>>
>> Þann mið 16.nóv 2016 11:42, skrifaði Nyall Dawson:
>> /---
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But the day will come, when someone proposes to substitute all the
>>>>> triple-points [...] with a proper typographical ellipsis […]. Then we'd
>>>>> better have some mechanism in place to make such substitution without
>>>>> fuzzying all the translations. I know, because of other software
>>>>> projects
>>>>> I'm involved in…
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Argh... Thanks a lot! Now I won't be able to sleep until this is fixed ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> And done: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3770
>>>
>>> Opinions welcome!
>>>
>>> Nyall
>>>
>> /---
>>
>> Sorry to have spoiled your night's sleep ;-)
>>
>> But are you absolutely certain that all the systems QGIS is running on do
>> support Unicode ?
>> This is for master, right? You're not going to merge this to stable
>> releases, is it ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sveinn í Felli
>>
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