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Terminology inconsistencies (1)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: morf <amorfortia <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 71708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71708: Terminology inconsistencies (1)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:11:21 +0300

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> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:03:27 +0200
> From: morf <amorfortia <at> gmail.com>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote on 6/21/24 21:20:
> 
>  Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:03:00 +0200
> From: morf <amorfortia <at> gmail.com>
> 
> However, when:
> 
> [menubar] File > Save As
> [Create] button
>     [tooltip] "Create Folder"
>     [popup] "Folder Name" (as well as a message "A folder with that name
>         already exists" when typing in an existing directory name)
> 
> This is an inconsistency.
> Since this is Linux, it should be "Create Directory" for the tooltip, "Directory Name"
> for the popup, and  "A directory with that name already exists" for the message.
> 
> 
> The dialog shown when you click File->Save As is the GUI dialog
> provided by the toolkit (in your case, it seems like GTK+), and Emacs
> has very little control on what it says, what it shows, and what are
> the tooltips there.
> 
> So I don't think this is an Emacs bug, if at all.
> 
> Hmm -- I actually hadn't realized that. I guess I was put on the wrong footing
> because a) the window is reported by xprop as 'Emacs', b) (as the GDK introspection
> tool reveals) it has a '#emacs-dialog' css ID and c) it looks a bit different from
> the regular file-manager windows on my system.
> 
> Anyway, to be fair I didn't call it a bug, but an inconsistency -- though
> admiitedly it isn't even that.
> Or was I wrong to post it on THIS list, and is there a more appropriate list to
> report such possible issues?

This is the right list, but there's nothing we can do about the text
in the GTK dialogs, and I very much doubt that GTK folks will change
the text to match the Emacs nomenclature.

So I think this is an inconsistency we will need to live with.

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