From kde-i18n-doc  Tue Feb 20 20:05:27 2007
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:05:27 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kicker/kicker/ui
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On February 20, 2007, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > hm. that's really sad. because the parens look horrible.
>
> And parens don't look horrible in "Description (Name)" format some
> lines further?

yes, they do; however, it is neither the default nor does it work the same=
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grammatically.

> > let me ask you this then: would "Name - Description" work better?
>
> Yes, but I can't speak about other languages of course. And Chusslove
> already provided correct (IMHO) fix - let translators decide.

this doesn't address the issue with the default setting; if it's a problem,=
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i'd actually like to improve it. note the word "improve" rather than "rever=
t=20
back to the previous situation which had its own unique issues".

i've wrapped the strings in i18n and the hint will help tip them off (and y=
es,=20
it should be there for good form anyways) but i'm guessing a lot of them wi=
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keep it as is. so i've put a '-' in there by default.

> > > And even for English users the setting in the control center and its
> > > help still says that the format is "Name (Description)".
> >
> > this is a non-issue. the reason i didn't change the control center is
> > that we were in a message freeze at the time. saying the feature must
> > follow the documentary description in the option is backwards.
>
> This shouldn't be the excuse to introduce inconsistencies between app
> and settings/docs.

it wasn't an excuse, it was a reason. i just checked with the release dude =
and=20
the string freeze is softened again so i've fixed that too.

> You just introduced the bug to fix something which=20
> wasn't a bug, just ugly.

*sigh* whatever.

svn up in the 3.5 branch and have at it.

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