"%s Features" needs translator comment

[GunChleoc]

"%s Features"
../src/videoaggregatorquery.cpp:130

It's not clear what's in the placeholder or if "Features" is 3rd person present tense of a verb, or a noun.

Also, is this "features" in the sense of software features, or in the sense of featuring something in a promotional context?

Please add a translator comment.

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

Looking at the code, I see that the "%s Features" string is used as a category title in the dash, so it's shown as the title before each
group of search results.
The %s will be replaced by the source, so it will look like "Youtube Features", "Vimeo Features", "TEDx Features", etc.
So, in a sense it will have the same meaning as "Feature Presentation" when calling the main film in a theater:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=170490

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

04/08/2014 20:40, sgrìobh Alejandro J. Cura:
> Looking at the code, I see that the "%s Features" string is used as a category title in the dash, so it's shown as the title before each
> group of search results.
> The %s will be replaced by the source, so it will look like "Youtube Features", "Vimeo Features", "TEDx Features", etc.
> So, in a sense it will have the same meaning as "Feature Presentation" when calling the main film in a theater:
> http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=170490

So, translating this as "Films on %s" would be OK?

Or would "Films promoted by %s" be more accurate?

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

I see that not only films will be shown here, so my guess is that it should be something like "Featured in %s".
Anyway, I'm adding the Ubuntu UX team, and asking for designers input on this.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I translated it as "%s recommendations", since the 'featured' is slightly hard to translate.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Thanks!

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

"Features" is a verb the way the phrase appears at the moment: "YouTube Features" and "Vimeo Features".

This grates on me because the capital letter strongly misleads the reader into interpreting "Features" as the plural noun.

It's awkward no matter what you do. I would suggest "Featured on Vimeo" and "Featured on YouTube", etc. That make it unambiguous as to whether we are talking about the verb or the noun. It can only be the verb with that wording.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

+1 to #6.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-mediascanner - 0.2+16.04.20160128-0ubuntu1

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unity-scope-mediascanner (0.2+16.04.20160128-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Michi Henning ]
  * Try to retrieve artist image even if all songs for an artist have an empty album tag (LP:1378278).
  * Fixed ambiguous string: "%s Features" -> "Featured on %s". (LP:
    #1351696)

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk. added: po/eo.po

  [ James Henstridge ]
  * Limit the number of results returns for the genres departments, and
    for albums/songs of artists results.

  [ Marcus Tomlinson ]
  * Fix My Music "concierge" card and render 3 results in the "My Music"
    category of the Music aggregator (as per design) (LP: #1539068,
    #1539070)

 -- James Henstridge <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:14:58 +0000