Some translation work for French

[jej]

Hi,
Following the PR #1376 discussion, I did a review of the French translations. It was very clean globally.

My changes are here: https://translations.launchpad.net/backintime/trunk/+pots/back-in-time/fr/+filter?person=j3jc

Some points to be discussed (in the English source):

• "BackInTime" vs "Back In Time" or "Back in Time"?...
• "Préférences" is used in French (like "preferences" in English) but as I understand it's more concerning "Configuration" rather than settings as it says. I think it should be harmonized. "Configuration" for everything related to snapshots configuration, and "Préférences" for settings. But I think there is no "settings" pane in back in time for now, everything is in the "preferences" menu.
• "Copy links (dereference symbolic links)" is not clear. If I understand well, it should be "Copy link targets (dereference symbolic links)"
• "Copy unsafe links (works only with absolute links)": I don't understand well this concept of safe or unsafe links.
• Last log entry confuse me, because it shows the whole log anyway. I would prefer something like "Display log" even if last entries are shown by default.

Hope it helps,
J.

@buhtz @emtiu

[buhtz]

Dear @jej ,
thanks a lot for your work.

We will take a closer look at it and some discussion of course.

[buhtz]

Because we do prepare the next release between Christmas and new year I would suggest to carry most of that points in that Issue after that release.

• "BackInTime" vs "Back In Time" or "Back in Time"?...

I would vote for "Back In Time" as the official name.
And as I can see so far it is what I can see at the most places in the GUI.

• "Préférences" is used in French (like "preferences" in English) but as I understand it's more concerning "Configuration" rather than settings as it says. I think it should be harmonized. "Configuration" for everything related to snapshots configuration, and "Préférences" for settings. But I think there is no "settings" pane in back in time for now, everything is in the "preferences" menu.

Currently I can only find "Settings" in the GUI.
Reading in the web and looking for evidence about the difference of the terms preferences, settings, options I would like to document that sources

• https://ux.stackexchange.com/q/17442/75302
• https://ux.stackexchange.com/q/43040/75302
• https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/338620/198281

In short:

• The terms are nearly similar but have shades in there meaning.
• There is no clear rule or decision about it.
• One advice was to look into style guidelines (e.g. Gnome, Google Android Apps, ...).

As you pointed out currently the structure of the GUI needs a full redesign (or written new from scratch) before we can decide about such terms. I'm also not happy about the current structure.

• "Copy links (dereference symbolic links)" is not clear. If I understand well, it should be "Copy link targets (dereference symbolic links)"
• "Copy unsafe links (works only with absolute links)": I don't understand well this concept of safe or unsafe links.

This can be found in the Expert Options. I would put that onto the touch-that-later-when-redesign-the-gui-list. There are tooltips behind that two options pointing to the specific rsync argument.
Myself I don't understand that options well and would like to test them first before decide how to name them and describe them.

• Last log entry confuse me, because it shows the whole log anyway. I would prefer something like "Display log" even if last entries are shown by default.

Do you mean the menu enry View | Last log ? I couldn't find Last log entry.

@buhtz @emtiu

No need for that. ;) We monitor each activity on the repo.

[buhtz]

FYI: In preparation of a new release and based on Germar manual I will try to integrate the current state of translations from launchpad into our upstream repo here at Microsoft GitHub.

[buhtz]

Dear Jej,

our Weblate translation platform is no setup and updated to the latest state of Back In Time including ease some of the strings (PR #1448) to translate.

If you like it would be great if you could look into the French translations. Please let me also know if I should add you to the `TRANSLATIONS' file so you appear as a translator in the About dialog.

Kind
Christian

[jej]

Hi,

I did a first big review... For the details, maybe I will do more after I see the app running.

Yes you can add me in the credits (jej@github).

Thanks,
J.

[buhtz]

Yes you can add me in the credits (jej@github).

Doing this via #1455

[buhtz]

Dear Jej,

did you got en automatic email in the last two days about you French translations on our translation platform?

I updated some strings so some need to be reviewed again. I just want to understand if the platform do mail translators automatically.