It seems this string-freeze break was not reverted nor was more info supplied (which Christian asked for). Can we have a bit more cooperation from Evolution hackers in the future?
Thanks, Danilo On September 17th, Christian Rose wrote: > fre 2004-09-17 klockan 11.36 skrev Danilo Åegan: >> So, I went to the trouble of actually checking what was approved, and >> I didn't find anything except for "translator-credits", which was >> already in. > > True. This is the only Evolution string freeze break that has been > approved so far IIRC. > > >> > The second, Danilo, is that we didn't realized this requirement until >> > after we'd committed a few string change for 2.0.1. Two of the string >> > changes add accelerators, if this is an issue we can revert that. >> >> Well, it's not for me to decide. This, like every other string change >> during string-freeze, needs to be weighted in terms of what it >> improves, and is it worth the trouble of 50+ translators who'd have >> to update their translations? FWIW (and it ain't much), my opinion >> is that these are not important enough. Unless we hear from a11y >> folks, of course. > > I'd really like to see the patches that did this before giving any > retroactive string freeze approval. Are there any relevant bug reports > or patch numbers for these changes? > > >> > The third string is a work around for the fact that GtkFileChooser can only >> > chooser a directory or a file, unlike GtkFileSel which could do both at >> > the same time. >> >> Seems to be http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=64974 > [...] >> There's already another message in Evolution which might be used >> instead of "Select individual file": >> >> #: shell/e-shell-importer.c:643 >> msgid "Select a file" >> >> If this message seems suitable, it would be way easier for >> translators if you used this string instead, so they don't have to >> update their translations at all. > > I'd like to second Danilo's suggestion. If changing the new string in > this patch to the already existing "Select a file" string would be > possible, the patch would need no string freeze approval at all, since > all existing translations would automatically be reused. It would > technically from the translator POV not be considered as a new string at > all. > > > Christian _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
