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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: comments
From:       "Manuel Gaul" <flying_horse () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-06-03 19:22:23
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I only have one thing to say : GREAT PROPOSAL, Stephan. Thanks. IMO that
really might make the life for us translators easier, at least a bit. That's
especially good for newbie's who've just started translating.

But there's also one thing that´is to be critisized. I don't know whether it
just was an example, Stephan, but the descriptions shouldn't be like those
telling 3 times almost the same...
Perhaps the 'Which key might be hit' could be left out.

Greets,
Manuel

From: Stephan Kulow <coolo@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
> Hi!
>
> Aaron Levinson (I'm sure I got this name wrong, so please
> make him not reading this list ;) [author of kmp3] had the
> idea to comment his .pot file with usefull comments for the
> translator.
>
> He posted the following example to kde-devel:
>
> # Used for the balance slider to move the balance
> # all the way to the left (i.e. sound only comes
> # out of the left channel/speaker).  The '&' is
> # used to indicate that with English, hitting the
> # 'L' key causes the same operation, for those people
> # that like to use the keyboard.
> #: ../src/KMBalanceSlider.cpp:158
> msgid "&Left"
> msgstr ""
>
> # Used for the balance slider to move the balance
> # to the center (i.e. sound only comes equally out
> # of both the left and right channels/speakers).
> # The '&' is used to indicate that with English,
> # hitting the 'C' key causes the same operation,
> # for those people that like to use the keyboard.
> #: ../src/KMBalanceSlider.cpp:160
> msgid "&Center"
> msgstr ""
>
> # Used for the balance slider to move the balance
> # all the way to the right (i.e. sound only comes
> # out of the right channel/speaker).  The '&' is
> # used to indicate that with English, hitting the
> # 'R' key causes the same operation, for those people
> # that like to use the keyboard.
> #: ../src/KMBalanceSlider.cpp:162
> msgid "&Right"
> msgstr ""
>
> # Used as an adjective, ala "Common [properties]"
> #: ../src/configDisplay.cpp:22
> msgid "Common"
> msgstr ""
>
> As you can see, it took him some time ;)
>
> OK, he did the whole adminstration manually and I
> had the undoubtful pleasure to write an automatic
> framework to do this for CVS.
>
> What I would like you to ask now is to add comments
> to .pot files as you may see fit it. If you had doubts
> what it is used for, you may do some context research
> and spare other translators the trouble. These comments
> get into the .pot files and also into each and every
> .po file, so the other translators will see them shortly
> after.
>
> I'm quite sure that most developers won't have the time
> to comment their pot file themselfs, but may be open for
> questions ;)
>
> Greetings, Stephan
> P.S. It needs some more testing, so please be patient with
> my code.
>
> --
> Und sie nannten ihn, wie er selbst unterschrieb -
> Den Trojanischen Pferdedieb
>

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