James Henstridge wrote:
> Libglade does not force you to put the glade files in any particular place
> (in different situations, you may want to store it in different places).
>
> Since glade files are platform independent data files, you probably want
> to store them under $(prefix)/share. So as not to conflict with any other
> packages, putting them under $(prefix)/share/$(PACKAGE) (in automake, this
> is $(pkgdatadir)) is probably a good idea. For instance, gnumeric stores
> its glade files under $(prefix)/share/gnumeric/glade.
Following the lead set by gnumeric sounds good to me. Can I suggest going one
stage further, and prescribing a standard method of naming and storing XML
files for national translations.
The dynamic behaviour of GTK makes it adapt well to the variable length of
translated text in widgets, provided the dialog is not too big. For large
business forms, which fill the entire screen its behaviour makes the form
spill off the edge of the screen, and demands the form be adapted for
specific languages. Although it is easy to modify an application to deal with
this, there is currently there is no standardised to do it.
Steve
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