| Term | In French hide | Thou Shall Not Say | Definition, comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global, OS level ^ top | ||||
| Application | Application | Module, Plugin, Extension, Add-on | ||
| Applications manager | Gestion des applications | |||
| User | Utilisateur | |||
| Permission | Droit d’accès | Right, Access | ||
| Role | Rôle | Group, User type | ||
| Tab | Onglet | |||
| Home tab | Onglet d'accueil | Desktop | ||
| System tray | Barre système | Top-right corner of the tab bar used for OS-level actions | ||
| Template | Gabarit | Theme, Skin | 'Theme' is not used to avoid the confusion with jQuery. | |
| Notification bubble | Bulle de notification | Notification (alone), Growl, Badge, Pop-up, Alert | Success, error or info messages popping up in the top-right corner when saving, editing or deleting data. | |
| Page | Page | |||
| Context | Contexte | Version | Novius OS is a multi-sites multi-languages CMS. In the same back-office, you manage several contexts, e.g. B2C / B2B sites, English / Spanish versions or even B2C (English, Spanish) / B2B (English only). | |
| Media Centre | Médiathèque | Media library | Novius OS uses British English, so would you please be kind enough to restrain from using "Media Center". | |
| Media file | Média | Media(s) | In French: No "médium / média", we go for "média / médias". | |
| Applications, standard UI ^ top | ||||
| App Desk | App Desk | mp3Grid, mp3Table, App Home, App Grid | Standard UI for applications' home. It includes a main grid, surrounded by inspectors. Inspired by music players (e.g. iTunes, Banshee), it was codenamed 'mp3Grid'. | See the screencast dedicated to the App Desk for further details. |
| Inspector | Inspecteur | Widget, Panel | ||
| Main grid | Tableau principal | Table | ||
| View | Vue | Display, Layout | Saved position of the inspectors and columns | |
| Thumbnails | Vignettes | Icons, Thumbs | Different types of views | There are two thumbnails views: Large and small thumbnails |
| List | Liste | Grid, Details | ||
| Tree | Arborescence | |||
| Consistency across applications helps users getting started with the software. This applies to texts, so please use the terms below for your application. Nevertheless, leave them aside whenever specific terms provide users with a better understanding of how an application works. Just make sure the added value is worth the effort of learning a new UI/texts. |
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| Add | Ajouter | Create | ||
| Edit | Modifier | Update | ||
| Delete | Supprimer | Remove | ||
| Save | Enregistrer | OK, Submit | ||
| Cancel | Annuler | Back, Discard | Destructive action: data may be lost. | |
| Share | Partager | Send | See the screencast dedicated to content sharing for further details. | |
| Translate | Traduire | Add in, Copy | When the content in available several languages, action of adding an existing item in another language. | |
| Copy | Copier | Add in, Duplicate | When several sites are managed, action of adding an existing item to another site. | |
| Close | Fermer | Quit, Exit, Remove | Applies to tabs and pop-up windows. | |
| Developers only ^ top | ||||
| These terms are meant for developers only and won't be communicated to end users. They are not to be translated either. | ||||
| Launcher | Icon, Home tab icon, Home tab application | Component of an application. Adds an icon to the home tab which launches the application when clicked. | See the infographic about to the applications for further details. | |
| Enhancer | Add-on, Plug-in | Component of an application. Adds a function to a WYSIWYG (listed under Applications in the toolbar). Standard enhancers do not provide URLs (e.g. contact form). | ||
| URL enhancer | Specific type of enhancers which provide URLs (e.g. blog). | |||
| Item | Instance of an object. | |||
| Observer | Comes from FuelPHP. Adds pre/post processing to insert, update, save or delete. | |||
| Behaviour | A behaviour is an observer. In addition, it allows to add new functions to an object. E.g. translatable, publishable. | |||
| Sharable data | Micro-data, Micro-format, Shared data | Standardised data (e.g. title, URL, image) released by applications to be used in other applications with data catchers. | See the screencast dedicated to content sharing for further details. | |
| Content nugget | Data Nuggets, Content chunks | Inseparable group of sharable data, e.g. title, URL, image of a blog post. | ||
| Data catcher | Sharer, Sharing provider, Connector, Micro-data | Component of an application. It catches sharable data to make use of it (e.g. send a blog post in a newsletter). | ||
| Dispatcher | Connector | Receives an event from an application and transmits it to the applications which are meant to react. | ||
| Utility view | View unavaible to end users but needed by an application (e.g. Media Centre in a modal window). | |||
| Locale | Several contexts can be managed in Novius OS. A context is either several sites / one locale, one site / several locales or several sites / several locales. A locale is a language/country pair, e.g. en-gb (English, UK) or de-ch (German, Switzerland). |
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| Site | ||||
| Contextable | Behaviour: when applied to a class, the items belong to a context. | |||
| Twinnable | Behaviour: could named "contextable and twinnable". The items belong to a context and can have a twin in another context. E.g. English and Spanish versions of a same page. | |||
| Renderer | Widget | Re-usable element of the interface. E.g. color picker, page selector. | ||
| Tree grid | Layout widgets. Used for the views of the main grid, for instance. | |||
| Thumbnails grid | ||||
| List grid | ||||
| nos | Namespace and prefix for the core | |||
| noviusos | Provider of Novius OS applications which are not part of the core | |||