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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Accelerators
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-10-27 11:51:52
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Friday 27 October 2000 12:50 wrote Matthias Kiefer:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:14:27PM +0000, Eric Bischoff wrote:
> > Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > > Qt Linguist has some advantages (context), but as the KDE code is not
> > > prepared to handle this, we basically should continue with KBabel and
> > > klocale, I'd say.
>
> I don't see the real advantage of the Qt translation system compared
> to gettext as we use it now. Besides the fact, that the classname of
> the widget can (is?) used as context information.

is. That's quite useful, I think.

The other advantage is that is tight to QTranslator (which is a bit more 
advanced than gettext, speedwise) and that lupdate is really a nice tool.

I don't know whether you got the full text of my mail to Eric, but I was 
suggesting continuing with kbabel for KDE.

Qt Linguist is BSD licensed. Maybe it contains some nice merging algorithmens 
and heuristics you'd like to include in KBabel?

>
> You know, that I am prejudiced because I am the author of KBabel,
> but I see no advantage of Qt linguist compared to KBabel, besides, that you
> can edit the phrasebook within the linguist. There are rather some features
> missing.
> The press release really shouts a little bit too loud for my ears.

Have you read KDE press releases lately? ;)


Matthias

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