[Freeciv-Dev] Re: identifier length

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 24. August 2001 07:30 schrieb Raimar Falke:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:13:13AM +0100, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
>
> > * button labels should be short and meaningful.
>
> This holds true for the english version. At least the German one has
> longer names. I'm not sure if this is the language or the
> translators.

If you want to make contributions to the german translation,
you're welcome. Some languages (like german) have longer
words and sentences than english. I don't think it's a
benefit, but it's a fact. All I wanted to say is, please
take this into account, and provide some extra space for
the (some) translations, and add a bit flexibility (as buttons
of different width). This is very fine for the most part
of the freeciv game, but in the named dialogs the developpers
forgot about it. Thank you.

>
> > We can make button sizes more dynamic in some places.
> > I find button labels with >20 chars and/or multiple lines a sign of
> > a poorly chosen string. I know its hard to come up with good
> > strings but it certainly isn't impossible.
>
>       Raimar

Christian

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