On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:28:31 +0900, Jari Rahkonen
<[email protected]> wrote:
10.12.2010 00:00, Алекс wrote:
В Пн., 06/12/2010 в 19:01 +0900, Florian Rivoal пишет:
I'll soon make a release of xfce4-time-out-plugin. Due to recent
feature
additions, most languages aren't fully translated. Thanks in advance to
anybody who finds time to improve on this.
Please fix the awful message style in that app. The constructions like
_("%d minutes") cannot be properly localized. The proper way is using
ngettext("1 minute","%d minutes",n) as it handles plurals correctly. At
least use ngettext("DUMMY%d","%d minutes",n) if you want "1 minute" to
be a special case.
Please see Florian's mail[1] (and the associated patch/bug[2]) from last
month asking for input on the problem of having several plural gettext
translations in the same string. Basically it seems that the current
behaviour is considered the lesser of two evils, but a third option
might be preferable. I suppose one big problem with the current way is
that it doesn't really facilitate translation to languages with multiple
plural forms.
Yes, this is the issue I sent a mail a while about. Now body answered, so
I assumed people didn't care either way, in which case it was easier to
leave things as is, to avoid having to retranslate the languages which
were already complete.
This mail is a clear sign that it is indeed an issue, so I'll fix it.
After giving a second look to the patch in that bug, I now see that it
causes fewer issues that I originally though, so I'll use it as is.
Oh wait, there's always the option of dodging the problem by dropping
this "verbose" form of the message altogether and only providing
something like '1:01:01 left' or '1:01:01 to go until next break'. It's
not like it is an essential feature or anything.
Yes, this is likely to have fewer issues, but I am not sure it would have
no issue at all. So if I am going to change the code and force everybody
who had already provided a translation to redo it, I want to be reasonably
sure that what I pick instead will do the trick. As I said above, I now
think the patch in bug #5611 is pretty much that silver bullet, so I'll
apply it.
- Florian
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