Re: Changes in the German translation >> Change other languages, change - into +

Hugh Sasse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.amaya.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Dominique Meeùs wrote:

> In French too, we have "Quitter Amaya".
> 
> Most applications in most operating systems have just "Quit (Ctrl+Q)". In my

ctl-S and ctrl-Q are stop and start, and have been since at least the 1980s

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ctrl-s+ctrl-q

> opinion, one should not correct German but correct all other languages to just
> "Quit" (without "Amaya") to be consistent with the common practice in GUI
> application software.
> 
> By the way, most documentation about software and most menus are expressing a
> combination of keys with the + sign (like in "Ctrl+Q"). (Likely ?+Q on a Mac,
> but I can?t check it now.) Why does Amaya alone (or nearly alone) write
> "Ctrl-Q" and the like? This also should be made consistent with the common

Because it has been a convention for years.  Google givew 112 million to
2.9 million in favour of ctrl- over ctrl+.  Where do you get you "most"
from?  For a case in point, see the Kermit documentation.

> practice about keyboard shortcuts.
> 
        Hugh, not on the Amaya team.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.