Re: corrections to Firefox pos

[Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>]

On Dec 18, 2004, at 4:33 AM, Ayman Hourieh wrote:

> Quoting Ossama Khayat from the general list: [1]
>
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:39:47 -0800 (PST), Ossama Khayat
> <okhayat at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > I would prefer Eghlaq (sorry, no Arabic keyboard now, sorry)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > _Please_ don't use this at all!!! Use 'Edhghat' instead.
> >
> > Just wanted to reply ASAP. Will do again if Arabic letters is a must.
> >
> > - Ossama
>
> Actually, I like إضغط and إغلاق more, but I found غلق and إنقر used
> more in Gnome, so I thought this was the general consensus here.

I have no native intuition as to which is preferable, but it seems to 
me you want to have different words for clicking the mouse and pushing 
a button, so I'd keep نقر for the former and ضغط for the latter.

I'm sure this will send shivers of horror down the spines of many on 
the list, but it's worth noting that this is Microsoft usage.  And 
since MS is likely to retain pretty much total dominance over computing 
in the Arab world for some  time to come, I think the smart thing to do 
is adopt MS terminology wherever possible.  People who learn computing 
using MS products (= virtually everybody) should not have to learn a 
new vocab in order to switch to Linux.  "Reforming" - or even debating 
- MS terminology is a waste of valuable time.

-gregg