From kde-i18n-doc  Fri Oct 30 11:36:26 2009
From: Yukiko Bando <ybando () k6 ! dion ! ne ! jp>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:26 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: How to represent variable-length messages
Message-Id: <200910302036.26351.ybando () k6 ! dion ! ne ! jp>
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Hello,

Chusslove Illich wrote:
> Since recently Qt has the capability to dynamically choose a widget
>  text _from a set of strings of different lengths, so that it best fits
>  the current UI width. For example, if the default label is "Drop the
>  file here" and the shorter variant "Drop here", as soon as the user
>  squeezes UI such that "Drop the file here" doesn't fit any more,
>  engine will switch to "Drop here".

It sounds interesting but I have a concern: What will happen if the 
default label is translated but the shorter version is not, or vice versa, 
especially if you go for multiple messages? Is Qt clever enough to keep 
the translated one in such cases? :)

Yukiko