[Xfce-i18n] Screen vs Monitor

[Stavros Giannouris]

On 3 January 2011 21:41, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Stavros Giannouris <stavrosg at hellug.gr>
> wrote:
> > On 3 January 2011 20:55, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Stavros Giannouris <stavrosg at hellug.gr>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello.
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to describe the two terms in the X Window System context so
> >> > that
> >> > I can provide good translations for them, but I'm a bit confused;
> >> > I have some idea in my mind about this but I can quite put it down in
> >> > writing, or it is too lengthy to be accepted in the UI.
> >> >
> >> > Can someone help me with this, or at least point me to somewhere not
> too
> >> > techical to read?
> >>
> >> It is indeed a bit confusing, and the difference might not be obvious
> >> for most users (doesn't need to be), but this is how it works (at
> >> least in Gtk+/Gdk):
> >>
> >> The X server opens 1 display, a display contains >= 1 screens and a
> >> screen contains >= 1 monitors. In real life you'd hardly see a setup
> >> with > 1 screen and > 1 monitor; for example nvidia uses multiple
> >> screens for each output (each containing a single monitors with the
> >> size of the screen) and randr (intel/nouveau/..) 1 screen with
> >> multiple monitors for each output. Another detail is that monitors can
> >> overlap each other, screens cannot.
> >>
> >> Now (I assume you are translating this) in case of the panel; when a
> >> display setup uses monitors (randr), each output will have a name
> >> (LVDS, VGA1, DVI1) which is used by the panel, so you'd hardly see
> >> Monitor %d in the panel preferences.
> >>
> >> Screens on the other hand cannot have names, so there the users always
> >> sees Screen %d.
> >>
> >> If I were you I'd just translate Monitor and Screen as-is; normal
> >> users don't see a difference; but tech-users might know and (that's
> >> the reason the panel uses different names for both) it provides useful
> >> info in bug reports.
> >>
> >> Hope that helps a bit.
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> > It helps a lot, thanks!
> >
> > The problem is that the translation is the same for both words in Greek,
> but
> > if the possibility to see both of them in the preferences is minimal,
> then
> > it should be fine to use it.
>
> You never see both at the same time in the output selector; the panel
> cannot handle the case > 1 screen && > 1 monitor.
>

Great, thanks!

-- 
Stavros Giannouris
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