Improving french translation

[qay21]

Greetings !

This discussion topic aims at improving the overall french translation. I'm creating it with the hope of meeting other french SnipeIT users, in order to coordinate efforts for a better and more consistent french translation.

As of today, most if not all of the original strings do have a french translation, making it possible to use SnipeIT as is, without any knowledge of any other language. However, you might have encountered here and there some inconsistencies. A given word or concept is translated differently from one interface to the other. Most of the time, these inconsistencies come from the fact that translation is made out of context, through CrowdIn.

My hope is that we can set up a glossary of "official" french translations of core SnipeIT terms and concepts. This way, we can slowly move toward a more consistent and unified translation, which will be easier to use and understand for our coworkers.

I'll edit the glossary bellow as we go, the discussion can subsequently follow a natural path using replys and threads.

Glossary

Original wording	Official translation	Dedicated discussion
Asset(s)	actif(s)	#13011 (comment)
Bulk	(en) volume	#13011 (comment)
Check out/in	TODO	#13011 (comment)
Consumable(s)	consommable(s)	#13011 (comment)
EULA	CLUF	#13011 (comment)
Seat(s)	TODO	#13011 (comment)

[qay21]

Asset

There is several different translations of the single "asset" concept in SnipeIT, today. I recall finding, at least :

• Objet : too generic, accessories and components are objects too
• Matériel : too generic, albeit being the exact translation of the URL itself https://mysnipeitinstan.ce/hardware
• Actif : the right translation in my opinion 👍
• Item : too generic
• Asset : untranslated, bad

I suggest using "actif" as an official translation as of now, and adding it to the glossary.

[qay21]

Check out/in

This one is a tricky one. Despite being pretty central in this software. I've found at least :

• caisse à : strictly incorrect and meaningless, coming from the common "checkout" button on eshops, which is commonly translated as "payer" or "passer à la caisse".
• attribuer / désattribuer : works well, maybe a bit long
• assigner / désassigner : works well to, also a bit long
• affecter / désaffecter : "affecter" (check out) works well, but "désaffecter" has a connoted meaning, making it unsuitable in this context in my opinion.
• associer / dissocier : works good enough, but I'm not a fan of "dissocier" in this context. It is the shortest form though, making it very useful for quick action buttons.

I'm uncertain here. "Associer/dissocier" is already used in the most common buttons and interfaces, and users are probably already familiar with it. However I feel that assigner/désassigner would work better. Keeping and generalizing the already most-used might be the way to go, here.

[qay21]

Consumables

Half of this word's occurrences are translated as "consommables", which is correct. The other half are translated as "fourniture", which is quite misleading. A laptop-protective backpack provided to workers is absolutely a "fourniture" in french, but it is certainly not a consumable, and should probably be handled as an accessory.

The best translation here is probably the simplest : consumable(s) = consommable(s)

[qay21]

Seat

Mainly used to talk about licenses checkout to people. A given license has a given number of seats, that can be assigned to max. one person each.

There is no exact french translation for this, as far as I'm aware. In the current translation, we can find at least :

• place : works, but kinda strange to me
• siège : litteral translation of seat. Might be the best option here

[qay21]

Bulk

So simple and yet so inconsistent. So far, I have found the following translations :

• (en) bloc : never encountered this translation IRL so far
• (de/en) masse : approximately ok, but more spoken-french than written-french
• (en) volume : in my opinion the best translation, despite being the longest
• multiple : not exactly false, but the meaning between "attribution multiple" and "bulk attribution" is not quite the same

"(en) volume" seems to be the best option here, but feel free to suggest other shorter and meaningful translations.

[qay21]

EULA

The EULA (End User License Agreement) is a contractual-value document describing the terms and conditions one must accept before installing/using a given piece of hardware/software. Currently, SnipeIT seems to use only the short form "EULA". The fully phrased form seems totally absent from localized strings.

So far, I've seen this term translated as :

• licence (d'utilisation) : not quite the same meaning. Same as in english, there can be a wide variety of licenses, focused on subject's buying, reselling, modification, usage, disposal, etc. The concept of acceptance of end-user operation terms and conditons of the asset need to be reflected in our translation.

I suggest using CLUF instead, frequently used in french, and standing for Contrat de Licence Utilisateur Final. Since EULA is neved explicited, CLUF should probably also be used as-is.