Hi Carmen,

Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 12:38 Uhr schrieb Carmen Bianca Bakker <
car...@carmenbianca.eu>:

> Hey Mario,
>
> On ĵaŭ, 2018-11-01 at 10:04 +0100, Mario Blättermann via gnome-i18n wrote:
> > But Glabels development has been switched from GTK to Qt, and the
> > version control system now resides at Github [1]. The upcoming major
> > version 4.0 will be based on Qt. Along with the Qt port, we are no
> > longer using po files, but ts files.
>
> Apart from Sveinn's fairly valid concerns, I am not really understanding
> why the switch from gettext to Qt Linguist was made.  Is it not possible to
> keep using gettext (and keep all current infrastructure) while still
> using Qt?  I understand that it is not Qt's native solution, but it's
> perfectly feasible.  I know that KDE uses gettext instead of Qt
> Linguist[1].
>
> The decision to switch to the native ts format was made by the main
developer Jim Evins. Maybe it is more simple to maintain within a pure Qt
application. Don't forget, Glabels won't become a KDE app, the goal is to
be platform-independent, see [1].

[1] https://github.com/jimevins/glabels-qt/issues/30

Best Regards,
Mario
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