On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:26 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote: <snip> > Some messages do not get translated, so you see in the translations > files things like > > msgid "DEFAULT" > msgstr "DEFAULT" > > This is convenient, because in the statistics you can see the app > fully translated. > > This also means that the MO file will still have an entry for these > two. Going through the MO files and removing these few occurrences > will free a bit of disk space, but also memory. > For some locales such as en_GB, this can account to about 14MB of MO > files while the real space should be close to 2MB.
We do this to look good in the translation stats (and know when to update the translations, which is a pretty big point). I'll like to see some real numbers on the memory usage instead of numbers being thrown around. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list