Hi Patrick, On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:32, Patrick Bernaud wrote: > Werner Hoch writes: > > x_menus.nw contains the strings for the context menu. Every string > > got an extra "/" at the beginning. What is it good for? > > I don't know. All I can say is that they were there before the > translation marks were added.
They appeared as changed strings here. I'm just wondering. > > The menu item "add-->Picture..." is not in the po file. > > It should be in noweb/rcstrings.nw. Is this a generated or a > > hand-made file? > > I think this file is hand-made but it is only a matter of a few > scheme lines of code to dump the menu names (for example by modifying > the system-gschemrc file to rewrite the add-menu procedure). I have > now updated rcstrings.nw. Thanks. > > There are several error messages in the po-files that the user > > will never see (or only if there are serious program or file > > format errors). At the moment I've translated them. > > What do you think, how to handle these messages: > > * translate > > * don't translate (then they appear as anoying not translated > > strings) * remove the gettext macros from the source files? > > My opinion is that we should do #3: only messages that are displayed > in the log message dialog or written to log file has to be > translated. Other messages are of no use to the end user: knowing > object is NULL in a particular function is of little interest for > him/her. These are typically messages for developers, not users. That's my opinion too. > However it is now too late for this version: we have to keep the > number of changes as low as possible until the release. Yes, of course. It was a "long term" comment. Regards Werner
