Panel strings and tooltips

[Jari Rahkonen]

Hi,

While working on the Finnish translation of the panel I noticed a couple
of things that might need some attention. Descriptions follow in no
particular order. I also attached a patch against the current cvs in
case you happen to agree with me on the correct way to address the problems.

1.
/panel/panel-dialogs.c, line 644
Typo: "Avalaible Items"

2.
Add a new launcher to a panel and it's named "New item". Add a new item
to the submenu of a launcher and it's called "New Item". Note the
capitalization. I'm sure this difference is not intentional. (The patch
changes "New item" into "New Item".)

3.
Hovering the mouse over the add items dialog item list you always get
the tool tip for the selected item. One would expect to see the tool tip
for the item the mouse cursor is currently over instead. Not that the
tool tips are really doing any good when they simply duplicate the
descriptions already visible in the list. I'd say lose the tool tips as
they don't provide any additional information anyway. (The patch gets
rid of these tool tips completely. I hope I did this right.)

4.
The systray plugin is referred to in some parts of the UI as System Tray
and in others as Status Area. Of these two terms System Tray, while less
descriptive, is probably in wider use. Using both might confuse a new
user. (The patch substitutes System Tray for Status Area in two files.
You might of course opt to do this the other way around or even decide
to call it the Notification Area.)

- Jari
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