I'm not a native English speaker, but I've always found the text on the Appearance page for setting a theme as the default as unnecessarily terse. "Enable and set default" and "Set default" could just as well be "Enable and set as default" and "Set as default." I came across this while translating Drupal core to Norwegian and thinking the Norwegian translation was wrong.
I've attached a patch and a screenshot of the relevant part of the Appearance page with the patch applied.
Comment | File | Size | Author |
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#4 | drupal-8-theme-ui-text-2093477-3.patch | 3.1 KB | Tor Arne Thune |
AppearancePageAfter.png | 68.85 KB | Tor Arne Thune |
Comments
Comment #1
Tor Arne Thune CreditAttribution: Tor Arne Thune commentedComment #2
EMHmark7 CreditAttribution: EMHmark7 commentedTested against most recent D8 dev. It does not accept the patch
It needs reroll.
Comment #3
EMHmark7 CreditAttribution: EMHmark7 commentedComment #4
Tor Arne Thune CreditAttribution: Tor Arne Thune commentedYou're absolutely right.
Comment #5
unknownterritory CreditAttribution: unknownterritory commentedI agree with the author: the English used in the patch is more sound and explicit.
I've also tested the patch, which works perfectly.
I've also searched for other similar strings on the whole code and couldn't find any other instances, so the patch covers all needs.
I'm changing the status to reviewed and tested by the community.
Comment #6
webchickHm. Assigning to the UX team for review, since I believe this terse-ness was done on purpose when we were re-styling UX text. But the claim that it's breaking UX for translators seems worth discussing.
Comment #7
xenophyle CreditAttribution: xenophyle commentedYay, I'm really glad about this patch. The wording has bothered me for a long time.
Comment #8
yoroy CreditAttribution: yoroy commenteddrupal-8-theme-ui-text.patch queued for re-testing.
Comment #10
yoroy CreditAttribution: yoroy commentedRetested the wrong patch, didn't I…
I agree the current wording is too terse, the patch makes perfect sense to me.
Comment #11
Tor Arne Thune CreditAttribution: Tor Arne Thune commentedGreat, thanks for your input! Back to RTBC for webchick or another core committer I suppose?
Comment #12
webchickGreat, thanks for checking!
Committed and pushed to 8.x. Thanks!