Hi! I think this is a complicated problem from the UI side. Usually you want to place the widgets in a horizontal and vertical order and as such you don't want to split the sentence into two labels and one input field:
| label1 | input1 | longer label 2 | input2 | super long label 3 | input3 and not | label 1.1 | input1 | label 1.2 | longer label 2.1 | input2 | other long label 2.2 | super long label 3 | input 3 | extra super long label that might even flip over to the next line 3 The %s approach might look simple but is also far from simple to implement in code. I doubt we can make a very good solution here. In the past, problematic languages often changed the contruction of the sentence in a way that was fitting their grammer needs. >>> The following strings were added: >>> "Forget this password if idle for" >>> "Forget this password after" >>> "Forget this password when I log out" So this could be (for example): "Idle time before password is forgotten:" "Total time before password is forgotten:" The third should be a toggle button and doesn't have that problem IMHO. Note that I am not a native speaker and that might sound ugly but I guess you get my point. Are the any languages where it is impossible to change the sentence in a way that fits in? Regards, Johannes _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
