From kde-devel Mon Aug 06 11:51:07 2001 From: Adriaan de Groot Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 11:51:07 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Fixing app typo's (was: Re: KDE 2.2 tagged) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99709884804055 On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Thomas Diehl wrote: > Am Montag, 6. August 2001 11:07 schrieb Malcolm Hunter: > > When can we resume typographical fixing then? > > Mainly in the HEAD branch (ie CVS default). In the KDE_2_2_BRANCH only > if it's an important fix (eg important for the meaning of a string). I was checking the translation of KPilot into dutch the other day, and that showed me my app's strings in a setting I'd never seen them before: as strings which have to convey a meaning, not just as inconvenient things in an i18n() call in my code. I'd recommend this experience to any app developer -- take a look at the message file of your app and see if *you* still understand what's going on. Anyway, the messages SUCK. Ouch. > Having said that I'd say we _could_ allow for a week or so of fixing > typos and the like. But definitely no big consistency and brush up > actions which would affect hundreds of strings. What do others think? I'd like to go through and: 1) Add comments to ambiguous messages. I'm not quite sure how that works, though. i18n("comment","string") ? Does that affect translations? 2) Remove bizzarre whitespace, such as msgid " (Timed out)" msgid "" "Couldn't start writing mailbody\n" Does that introduce fuzzies, or whole new strings? 3) Fix up random capitalization errors and uses of ([Pp]alm)*([Pp]ilot)* where they should all read "Palm". That *does* introduce new strings. Maybe something for 3.0. I even noticed that Rinse translated "Pilot" into "PalmPilot" in many places. 4) Fix up string-insertion woes in some strings. For example: msgid "Send bugs reports to " obviously the code will add an email address to the end of that string, which may not be grammatically correct for a lot of languages. Which of these could I possibly put into 2.2.1 and which should I keep for 3.0? -- +------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ + Adriaan de Groot + Project: FRESCoS + + adridg@cs.kun.nl + Private: adridg@sci.kun.nl + + Kamer A6020 tel. 024 3652272 + http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/frescos/ + >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<