Re: [Back In Time] "Add pattern" and "Add defaults"

Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:21:16 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.portuguese
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Christian,

My sugestion is translate pattern to "modelo".
Because It shows a pre-defined list to user choose one.

Best regards,


Em 24/11/2025 06:45, [email protected] escreveu:
> Hello,
> 
> I am upstream maintainer of Back In Time [1][2] and know nothing about 
> Portuguese.
> Regarding my current (human) translator and my own dialog with a well 
> known LLM, it seems that the two strings "Add pattern" and "Add 
> defaults" can be translated into Portuguese the same way: "Adicionar 
> padrão".
> 
> But having this in the same dialog window would confuse the Portuguese 
> users. So I am asking for advice from you as native speakers. I am also 
> open for modifying the original English strings.
> 
> The dialog and the original strings can be found here: [3]
> 
> Maybe it will help if I would give you some more context. It is a backup 
> application using rsync in the back. The dialog is about adding exclude 
> rules to the rsync call.
> "Add defaults" just adds a pre-defined list of files and folders (e.g. 
> trash, temp, ...) to that list.
> "Add pattern" is about regex-like exclude pattern. The button opens an 
> input dialog asking for an "exclude pattern".
> 
> I wouldn't like to modify "Add pattern" into "Add exclude pattern" 
> because the exclude-context is set by the dialog itself. And I also 
> don't want to make the button bigger than it need to be.
> But this is just my opinion and I am not fixed to it. ;)
> 
> I am happy about any advice you could give me about that.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Buhtz
> 
> [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>
> [2] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime>
> [3] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/translate/backintime/common/pt/? 
> checksum=ac5c348640cbfd0a>
> 

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Debian Developer
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