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Subject:    Re: <label>, <tooltip>, <whatsthis> strings from .kcfg files needlessly translated?
From:       "Yuri Chornoivan" <yurchor () ukr ! net>
Date:       2013-05-27 17:56:45
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написане Mon, 27 May 2013 20:40:29 +0300, Albert Astals Cid  
<aacid@kde.org>:

> El Dilluns, 27 de maig de 2013, a les 13:15:12, Matěj Laitl va escriure:
>> Hi folks, mainly Albert,
>
> Hi
>
>> together with Vít Pelčák we've found that strings from <label>,  
>> <tooltip>
>> and <whatsthis> entries in amarokconfig.kcfg XML file go into Amarok  
>> .pot
>> file even though we have no SetUserTexts=true in associated
>> amarokconfig.kcfgc file.
>>
>> [1] says: SetUserTexts - specifies whether <label>, <tooltip> and
>> <whatsthis> tags should be processed. This allows tools like  
>> KConfigDialog
>> make use of these tags. By default this tags are ignored.
>>
>> So these strings aren't used anywhere in UI and are perhaps translated
>> needlessly? Perhaps scripty extractor should be enhanced in a way that  
>> it
>> only processes .kcfg files when there is SetUserTexts=true in associated
>> .kcfgc?
>
> Well, the stuff is still translated becuase someone had the mythical  
> idea that
> you could create a would open the installed .kcfg files and let you edit  
> the
> settings visually and those fields would be used to give the user a
> description of what each setting was.
>
> Obviously that editor never happened but we decided it did not hurt that  
> much
> to translate a few strings more.
>
> That's the rationale behind it, obviously if the most people think it  
> doesn't
> make sense I'll accept patches to scripty to do what you suggested.
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert

These translations can be useful because someone will read your kcfg tips  
once more and fix the typos in them. ;)

Just my 2 cents.

>
>>
>> Note that we wouldn't like to remove the tags, they serve as a  
>> documentation
>> and at least the <label> tag ends up in generated C++ class as a  
>> docstring,
>> which is extremely useful when developing.
>>
>> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Using_KConfig_XT
>>
>> 	Matěj
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