Confusing English texts

[Hb---]

Select Panel

The Select button on several panel dialogs​ has the string
"Set the selected elements on the map to the selected items in the list above."
The German translation in tested "Ausgewählte Elemente auf der Karte auf die obige Liste der ausgewählten Objekte setzen." is wrong because the button selects elements on the map according to the list. The original string is in the code since r86 and also used in plugins/opendata/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/opendata/core/gui/OdDialog.java

The new German translation in latest "Wählt jene Elemente auf der Karte aus, die in obiger Liste markiert sind." does not solve this issue for all other languages.

I suggest "Selects those elements on the map which are chosen on the list above." but that might be far away from being good English.

File/

Menu items usually have three periods after their names to indicated that a dialog follows and no direct action, i.e. Save As.... These dots are currently missing for

• File / Download DownloadAction​
• File / Upload data DownloadAction​
• File / Upload selection UploadSelectionAction​
• File /Close open changesets CloseChangesetAction​
• Presets / Search Preset TaggingPresetSearchAction​

So please add ... the source strings.

AlignImageryPanel

The nag panel​ for misaligned imagery has a checkbox "Do not show this message again" and a button with the tooltipText "Hide this message and never show it again" to close the panel in line 55.

1. Open Bing aerial
2. Close the nag while leaving the checkbox=false
3. Delete the imagery layer
4. Open Bing aerial again

The nag appears as expected. So the "never again" part is wrong. The tooltip text should be set to "Hide this."

[Don-vip]

You already almost made the job, could you please attach a patch?

[simon04]

In 14390/josm:

fix #15918 - Confusing English texts (thanks to Hb---)

[Klumbumbus]

There was a little mistake in r14390. The dots for Imagery preferences were added in the preferences itself instead of in the menu entry.

[simon04]

In 14629/josm:

fix #15918 - Confusing English texts (Imagery preferences)

[simon04]

I found a few more (actions displaying a dialog w/o ... in their name):

• Jump to Position
• Preset preferences
• Search menu items

[Hb---]

Replying to Don-vip:

You already almost made the job, could you please attach a patch?

Current efforts are visible in Glossary and in the en_CA translation. While the source strings have 673 occurrences of "select" the Canadian dialect has only 68. Affected are around 400 source strings. Seems not to be ready by March.

[Hb---]

Ticket #13689 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[Hb---]

All mentioned strings were fixed.

The remaining issues need new bugs as #17380 (en_CA) is closed.