Re: [libreoffice-design] Comments on tooltips

Is there any good reason to optimize tooltip for length?

Anyway, I don't stick to the exact wording. The idea was to have a syntactical 
convention on how to phrase tooltips. That is in English Verb-Object ("Save 
file") which would be Object-Verb localized in German ("Datei speichern").

On Wednesday 01 April 2015, 00:48:54 you wrote:
> Hi Sophie,
>
> Please do comment in the sheet, though i dont think Heiko's suggestion
> for that button tooltip sounds right to me.
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>
> On 03/31/2015 07:52 PM, Sophie wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to do some comments on this sheet
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YznFkDn91kMH6hoNsXkLzjRxzOJGdF1sqY
> > XhPgPAN18/edit#gid=0
> >
> > I found that some of the proposal are too long when translated and are
> > more extended tips, for example:
> > 'Show toolbar with basic shapes'
> > gives in French
> > 'Afficher la barre d'outils avec les forms de bases'
> >
> > Would it help if I give some comments in the sheet, like
> > 'Basic shapes toolbar' preferred for l10n? Or maybe it's not important
> > for tooltips?
> > Thanks in advance
> > Sophie


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