poor english grammar in battstat applet

[Jamie Wilkinson]

The tooltip for the battstat applet reads "x hours till charged". Firstly, the
abbreviation of "until" is "'til" and secondly "till" is a different word
entirely :-)

Please replace the word "till" with "until".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We can't change the strings without breaking the translations, so no fix soon
for this

[Jamie Wilkinson (jaq-spacepants)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We can't change the strings without breaking the translations, so no fix soon
> for this

I'd hate to scare the translators, but the change is from an incorrect word to a
correct word without changing the intended meaning of the string, so I don't see
why the translators would need to concern themselves with this bug. In fact, I
will argue that this is a bug only in the English translation of this string.

Then again, if the translators *have* made a direct translation of the word
"till" then their translations are also wrong (and probably significantly more
wrong than the English translation, as the chance that the translation of "till"
looks similar to the translation of "until" is quite unlikely).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The problem is that if we change a char in the english string all the
translations become "fuzzy" and are not used. I can unfuzzy all of them and
update but I've no time to review all the po file to unfuzzy it right now,
patches are welcome :) BTW I'll try to have a look after the GNOME 2.8 packaging
....

[Vincent Untz (vuntz)]

Reported upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153860

[Vincent Untz (vuntz)]

Created an attachment (id=216)
Proposed patch.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

 gnome-applets (2.8.0-0ubuntu3) warty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/11_battstat-english.patch
     - patch by Vincent Untz <email address hidden> to fix the poor english
       grammar in battstat applet (Warty: #1193).

Thanks for the patch Vincent