Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update German translation

Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 13:49 schrieb Paul Mackerras:

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By the way, the following two keybinding explanations seem ambiguous to 

me:

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  <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