Plugins' names in site settings are messy

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The discussion highlights inconsistencies in the naming and presentation of plugins in the site settings. Canapin points out that some plugin names are translated while others are not, and there is no consistent use of the word ‘Discourse’ in the names. Some names are truncated or poorly translated, making the list hard to read. Moin adds that the plugins are not in alphabetical order and mentions a previous discussion about similar issues with sidebar links.

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They’re all official plugins.

Some are translated, some are not.

Some have “Discourse” in their name, some don’t.

Some have prepended “Discourse”: “Discourse Akismet”, “Discourse Résolu”

Some have appended “Discourse”: “Qui est en ligne Discourse”, “Modèles de Discourse”.

Some use “Discourse” and other “de Discourse”: “Réactions de Discourse”, “Qui est en ligne Discourse”.

Some translations are just plain weird and read like automatic translation: “Insérer une date et une heure”.
Plus, this one is truncated because of its length, but you won’t know its complete name unless you look at the HTML code since when you click on it opens a page where nothing is translated, and the plugin’s name appears as “Local dates”.

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All these inconsistencies make the plugins list hard to read. Naming conventions should be made :slight_smile:

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I mentioned that to the team in my first feedback in March 2024. (Not the quality of the French translations, but the mix in language). It’s also confusing that they are not in alphabetical order.

I created a topic about links in the sidebar that are to long a year ago after I mentioned it on Crowdin and mcwumbly asked me to start “a topic on meta about this general problem so we can discuss together there w/ screenshots etc”. The discussion was quite short. Problems with the limited number of characters displayed in the sidebar

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