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Signals: confusing concept (wording): "Signal density" #6408

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DorpsGek opened this issue Jan 1, 2016 · 1 comment
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Signals: confusing concept (wording): "Signal density" #6408

DorpsGek opened this issue Jan 1, 2016 · 1 comment
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@DorpsGek
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DorpsGek commented Jan 1, 2016

juanjo opened the ticket and wrote:

This is not a bug report. It is a suggestion in order to revise the wording of some strings.

STR_BUILD_SIGNAL_DRAG_SIGNALS_DENSITY_TOOLTIP: {BLACK}Dragging signal density
STR_BUILD_SIGNAL_DRAG_SIGNALS_DENSITY_DECREASE_TOOLTIP: {BLACK}Decrease dragging signal density
STR_BUILD_SIGNAL_DRAG_SIGNALS_DENSITY_INCREASE_TOOLTIP: {BLACK}Increase dragging signal density

While translating those, I found the concept "density" difficult and confusing. "Decrease density" means decreasing the space between signals, and thus increase the amount (and density) of signals in the involved tiles.

I understand that they mean something like:
"Distance between signals{}When placing rail signals while dragging the mouse or holding Ctrl pressed, they will be separated at this distance"
"Decrease/Increase the distance between two consecutive signals"

This way, the strings are easier to understand in Catalan. Changing them in the base language is not so easy, as it may involve changing some other lines of the source code of OpenTTD.

Reported version: trunk
Operating system: All


This issue was imported from FlySpray: https://bugs.openttd.org/task/6408
@DorpsGek DorpsGek added component: interface This is an interface issue flyspray This issue is imported from FlySpray (https://bugs.openttd.org/) bug labels Apr 7, 2018
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Fully agree the wording is weird.

@TrueBrain TrueBrain added good first issue Good for newcomers bug Something isn't working and removed bug from FlySpray labels Apr 13, 2018
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