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

Hi there, Christian,

I suggest using:

Add defaults -> Adicionar padrões (plural form, impliyng files & directories)
Add pattern  -> Adicionar regra   (meaning a rule, or schema)

Abraços,

Thiago (tco)
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Debian contributor



24 de novembro de 2025 às 09:21, "Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana" <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Paulo%20Henrique%20de%20Lima%20Santana%22%20%3Cphls%40debian.org%3E > escreveu:



> 
> 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> https://github.com/bit-team/backintime%3E 
> >  [2] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime%3E 
> >  [3] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/translate/backintime/common/pt/? 
> >  checksum=ac5c348640cbfd0a>
> > 
> -- 
> Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)
> Belo Horizonte - Brasil
> Debian Developer
> Site: http://phls.com.br/
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>