[mb-i18n] couple string related notes

Mika Heiska kilualmighty at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 14:49:05 UTC 2006


Alexander Dupuy wrote:
> Mika Heiska wrote:
> 
>> Someone with English OS should chime in on this, which one is more 
>> common? I have a feeling that the 'Open file' is used more often, but 
>> I really can't be sure. Plus of course I'm only thinking about Windows 
>> world, I have no idea if other OS' have different naming standards.
> 
> 
> Add File vs. Open File - I would say that if the operation creates a new 
> window that shows the file in some way, it should be "Open File".  If it 
> merely adds it to a list of many other files that it has opened, and is 
> not displayed separately, "Add File" would be a better choice.
> 
> That said, I don't think I have ever seen an "Add File" menu option on 
> any English OS  (Mac/MacOSX/Windows/Linux) that I have ever used.  But 
> that doesn't it make it wrong, or a worse choice.
> 
> @alex
The operation adds a file or files (incase of a dir) to the 'new files' 
folder to be scanned. So I guess the question is, should we use what is 
standard (Open), or what is actually right and makes more sense (Add)? :)

On a sidenote, I used 'Add' for all the places in the Finnish 
translation, eventhough the Finnish standard is also equivalent to 'Open'.

~Kilu



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