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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: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:20:58 +0300

> 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.

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