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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Bug Report or Bugreport
From:       "Malcolm Hunter" <malcolm_hunter () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2001-05-11 8:50:25
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I think that's a brilliant idea. What's the chance of getting developers to
accept it? What about existing code?

Regards,

Malcolm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro Morais" <pmmm@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
To: <kde-i18n-doc@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Bug Report or Bugreport


> Em Quinta, 10 de Maio de 2001 17:37, Malcolm Hunter escreveu:
> > Okay (Ok, OK.. heh), I've been playing around with KDE and apart from a
few
> > spelling mistakes (which I will leave until the team has begun a
methodical
> > checking process), I notice alot of inconsistency in the menus and
> > tooltips. For example: In KSpread, the border button tooltips show:
Border
> > left, Border Top, Border Right... notice that the 'left' has a lower
case
> > L. If you click on the menus, some options have title case and others
> > sentence case. Similarly, some of the Color Schemes in Control Center /
> > Colors have the same. Since KDE has such wonderful eye-candy elsewhere,
> > would it be appreciated if I included work in this area?
>
> It also bothers me.
>
> Remember a patch I sent to this list to make gettext add the name of the
> tag (i18n, I18N_NOOP) to the comment line on each entry of the pot file?
>
> The idea behind it (I don't know if it was clear at that time, no one
replied....)
> is that the programers stop using i18n all the time and start using
> I18N_TOOLTIP, I18N_MSGBOX_CAPTION, ..., instead.
> All there macros would just be #defined as i18n.
>
> That way we can check the consistency of stuff like case automatically.
> And, IMHO, that is the only way to do it -- manually is just impossible.
> You can also detect early conflicts, if a msgid is used for a tooltip and
> also for a message box caption some day one translation team will
> run into problems translating it.
>
> And, since most GUI should be moving to qtdesigner, we could extend it to
> use the new tags -- so this won't add to much work to the programmers.
>
> I can repost the patch if there's interest in it.
>
> --
> Pedro Morais - LEIC/IST - pmmm@rnl.ist.utl.pt
http://www.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~pmmm
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