On 02/12/2007, Robert-André Mauchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this is a good idea. Actually we do translate the \"top\" > and other attributes to give informations about it. For example in > french translation : > > #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1540 > #, c-format > msgid "No \"top\" attribute on element <%s>" > msgstr "Aucun attribut « top » (« haut ») sur l'élément <%s>"
Ah, I see what you mean. A brief overview of the languages used in Metacity shows that, for theme-parser.c:1547: Languages which contain the keyword "bottom" and clearly (to me) don't translate it at all: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ca cs da de es eu fi hu it lt nb nl pl pt ro ru sk sl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sr sv th uk Languages which include the word "bottom" and also translate it: fr vi Languages where the question doesn't make sense because "bottom" means the same thing as in en_US: en_CA en_GB Languages which are so different from any I know that I can't make a reasonable guess were excluded from the count. However, these languages do not contain the string "bottom" at all, which necessarily means they are erroneous; most of them contain a quoted string which is presumably a direct translation: ar pa pt_BR ta Given all this, I suppose there are three avenues we may take: 1) Decide that it is best if error messages don't attempt to translate keywords for users, and make a general policy that the manual is the place for such information (as almost all languages are already doing). This would have the useful side-effect of fixing at a stroke the problem posed by the languages which don't give the actual keywords at all. 2) Decide to leave it up to the translators, and make a general policy that developers should provide places to translate each keyword (so in almost all languages "bottom" the Metacity theme keyword would be "bottom", but in French it would be "« bottom » (« bas »)"). 3) Do nothing and leave things as they are. T _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
