[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages
For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have strings like Button Label|Display. This is an error which will be displayed verbatim in the application(s) concerned. The solution is to remove the prefix Button Label| from your translated version. I have filed this as a bug: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xfce-mcs-plugins/+bug/75351 -- The less I have to do with customers, the better. I've always felt that the biggest contribution the commercial vendors do is exactly the fact that they end up being the interface between customers and developers, and that they also thus end up being the balance between purely technical issues and the purely marketing thing. And open source keeps them (and the developers, for that matter) honest. - Linus Torvalds, 21 December 2004 pgpvF4VnGZ7Je.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation
Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages
On 12/11/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have strings like Button Label|Display. This is an error which will be displayed verbatim in the application(s) concerned. The solution is to remove the prefix Button Label| from your translated version. The reason for doing this is explained in the gettext manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_10.html#SEC151 -- Malcolm Parsons -- Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation
Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:01, Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have strings like Button Label|Display. This is an error which will be displayed verbatim in the application(s) concerned. The solution is to remove the prefix Button Label| from your translated version. The reason for doing this is explained in the gettext manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_10.html#SEC That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these things. -- ... we don't believe that security by obfuscation is really security. By that I mean if you have a security hole and you hope someone doesn't find it because it's difficult to find, you're in trouble. They'll find it. - Shawn Burke, development manager, Microsoft Windows Forms team, 2005-02-04 pgpk24zj6NNOS.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation
Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages
On 11/12/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these things. Well, I'm sure as soon as Canonical get round to GPLising it this will happen. Until then, no... -- Ben Goodger #391382 - Mi admiras religiajn; ili estas fine ebliĝinta solvi la maljunegan demandon kiel oni povas vivi sencerbe?. It is well-known that I am blunt and unsophisticated. It's largely your fault if you object to this. -- Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation
Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 00:29 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these things. Indeed, during the Edgy cycle both Evolution and Totem had bad strings in this way. Perhaps the greasemonkey script could be modified to not copy the bit to the left of the |? -- Bruce Cowan https://launchpad.net/people/bruce89 -- Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation
Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-eng] xfce-mcs-plugins and other GTK+ packages
Bruce Cowan wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 00:29 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not present an opportunity for end users to see Button Label|string strings all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these things. Indeed, during the Edgy cycle both Evolution and Totem had bad strings in this way. Perhaps the greasemonkey script could be modified to not copy the bit to the left of the |? ... sorry, which greasemonkey script? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation
