From: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 18:33:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update German translation
Message-ID: <200805022033.01407.stimming@tuhh.de>
In-Reply-To: <18458.65466.449698.790306@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 13:49 schrieb Paul Mackerras:
> > By the way, the following two keybinding explanations seem ambiguous to 
me:
> > >   <Home>  Move to first commit
> > >   <End>   Move to last commit
> >
> > What happens is that <home> jumps to the newest commit and <end> jumps to
> > the oldest commit. Whether the "first" commit should be the newest or the
> > oldest is, well, somewhat ambiguous. I'd propose to talk about the newest
> > or topmost commit, but rather not about the "first".
>
> Well, the commits aren't in date order, strictly speaking, and the
> last commit isn't necessarily the oldest (though the first commit will
> in fact be the newest).  How about:
>
> <Home>	Move to head of list
> <End>	Move to tail of list
>
> Would that be any clearer?

I think "head of list" and "tail of list" are more the terms about the 
implementation detail and not so much an explanation that is easily 
understood for the user. I think some combination using the word "top" should 
rather be used to make it really clear we're talking about the upper end of 
the window.

Christian