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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Sugestion: KStdErrorMessages
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-26 22:17:10
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On Sunday 26 August 2001 21:29, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2001 19:43 schrieb Andreas Schlapbach:
> > I very much support this idea. While writing this code I had the
> > feeling that this sentences must be used in other plces too, and I
> > don't specially care about how exaclty the error is reported to the
> > user. Using standard sentence sounds like a good thing to me.
> >
> > Using such an approch could even improve the consistency of the KDE
> > user interface and reduce the translators work load.
> >
> > May be somebody of the translator team could compile a list of the
> > most used sentences and we could add something along the line of
> > what Pedro has suggested.
>
> A list of the most used strings already exists in
> kdelibs/common_texts.cpp. These strings go to kdelibs.pot and are
> automatically used whenever they show up in other apps.

But this only works, if developers use exactly the same text for their 
error messages, and this is quite unlikely, in particular for longer 
messages. Some symbolic names, e.g. in KMessageBox would make this 
easier and lead to a more consistent desktop. I like the idea.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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