hand-holding interface

French translation: une interface qui vous prend par la main

08:03 Aug 22, 2008
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology)
English term or phrase: hand-holding interface
Unlike the hand-holding interface of BeInSync, the Mesh Web site starts you off with a screen showing existing devices (including the online file manager, Live Desktop) and a big '+' button for adding one. With a new device, you log in to the Mesh site and click the '+' button to download and install the Mesh software. Once you've set up all your computers, you can connect to any one of them and even control that system remotely via Windows Remote Desktop, a Windows XP and Vista feature that Live Mesh enhances. (You might also need to install an ActiveX control on the system you're using to access another of your devices.) Unlike BeInSync, which provides access just to the data residing on other machines, the remote-desktop feature in Mesh lets you take complete control of a distant computer, although a slow Internet hookup will make the experience painful if not impossible.
Catherine Lenoir
Local time: 11:00
French translation:une interface qui vous prend par la main
Explanation:
"De plus, les interfaces graphiques sont maintenant très évoluées, à l'identique de ... Si vous souhaitez un système tout prêt, qui vous prend par la main, ...
http://www.generation-nt.co"m/pourquoi-passer-a-linux-a...
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FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 11:00
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merci
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5une interface qui vous prend par la main
FX Fraipont (X)
4interface assistée
Juliette Scott
3une interface pas à pas
Anne Bohy
3 -1interface prise de tête
Sébastien Ricciardi
Summary of reference entries provided
Jacques DP

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
une interface qui vous prend par la main


Explanation:
"De plus, les interfaces graphiques sont maintenant très évoluées, à l'identique de ... Si vous souhaitez un système tout prêt, qui vous prend par la main, ...
http://www.generation-nt.co"m/pourquoi-passer-a-linux-a...

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 11:00
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 1148
Grading comment
merci

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sawal
36 mins
  -> merci

agree  Jacques DP: C'est-y pas poétique...
41 mins
  -> merci

agree  C. Mouton: si seulement les interfaces de trad vous prenaient par la main, elles aussi (non, je rigole... mais quand même)
1 hr
  -> merci

disagree  Sébastien Ricciardi: Je pense qu'ici ce n'est le sens ou on aurait pensé en 1er, voir ma proposition
1 hr

agree  Martin Cassell: the source term can be used in a positive way (as in your example) or a negative way, as in the asker's context ("une interface qui tient à vous tenir par la main à chaque pas")
1 hr
  -> merci

agree  Eric Le Carre
3 hrs
  -> merci

agree  Arnold T.
15 hrs
  -> merci
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
interface prise de tête


Explanation:
hand-holding also stands for arm wrestle (bras de fer)

Je pense qu'ici le texte cherche à montrer que contrairement à la concurence qui a une interface compliquée, le produit proposé est plus simple.

Contrairement à l'interface prise de tête de BeInSync, "the Mesh Web" vous propose d'entrée ...(un tas de trucs simples)....


    Reference: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Hand-holding
Sébastien Ricciardi
France
Local time: 11:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Martin Cassell: sorry Sébastien, the meaning is definitely "which supports you at every step" // because the author dislikes the over-supportive approach
9 mins
  -> why the "unlike" then?
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
interface assistée


Explanation:
See refs

http://www.libellules.ch/compress2.php
(Winzip)


    Reference: http://www.attachmate.fr/NR/rdonlyres/C676D9F1-CE79-4B9B-B48...
    Reference: http://www.freenews.fr/nat/742-presse-classement-witbe-journ...
Juliette Scott
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:00
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Martin Cassell: the implication here, though, is surely that it is "trop assistée"
6 mins
  -> but don't you think that the rest of the text, as in the refs I gave, shows that?
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
une interface pas à pas


Explanation:
Bien que ce ne soit pas la traduction exacte, il me semble que c'est le sens...

Anne Bohy
France
Local time: 11:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 194
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Reference comments


2 hrs peer agreement (net): +2
Reference

Reference information:
À noter que "hand-holding" est un terme courant dans le contexte de l'assistance technique (et au-delà). Bien que la connotation soit généralement positive (contrairement au cas qui nous occupe), c'est toujours à double tranchant : s'il faut tenir la main de l'utilisateur, c'est bien qu'on le considère, à tort ou à raison, comme un enfant...


    Reference: http://www.google.fr/search?q=%22technical+support%22+hand-h...
Jacques DP
Switzerland
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 84

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Yolanda Broad
4 hrs
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
20 hrs
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