Bug 145836 - Unclear string 'Long Dot'
Summary: Unclear string 'Long Dot'
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130074
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2021-11-22 16:25 UTC by sophie
Modified: 2022-11-22 11:54 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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LO line style names at 7.2 (28.23 KB, image/png)
2021-11-22 16:50 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Description sophie 2021-11-22 16:25:39 UTC
Comment from Tuomas: Why is this called "long dot"? The dots are not actually longer with this option, it's the space between dots that is longer.
Suggestion from Mihkel: Indeed, e.g. "Sparse dots" would be better.

string location: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/include/svx/strings.hrc#912
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2021-11-22 16:50:53 UTC
Created attachment 176422 [details]
LO line style names at 7.2

Long and Double are descriptors of how line styles are composed.

A Long Dash is a wider dash than a Dash, while a Long Dot occupies the same spacing--but the dot doesn't change (square or round dots).

Long in this context is element width spacing.

Would only cause confusion to change to "Sparse" for Dots but not for Dashes which clearly are not sparse.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2022-11-22 08:30:18 UTC
Translation was added for bug 130074. Kinda duplicate... reopen to question "Long Dot".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 130074 ***
Comment 3 sophie 2022-11-22 11:54:39 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Translation was added for bug 130074. Kinda duplicate... reopen to question
> "Long Dot".
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 130074 ***

Well, it's true that translation is there but it doesn't change Tuomas request to have a better string for Long Dot :)