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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: koffice translations!!!
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-09-27 13:08:20
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tinkl Lukáš wrote :
>Well, I was not complaining about fixing the bugs above, but pointing Coolo
>to the fact, that this change didn't only mean splitting strings! Otherwise
>I'm really grateful I can use kspread every day, believe me.
>
>> I can understand the frustation due to the changes in the 
>> messages, but when 
>> the related fix _is_ a fix for non-English users, I think a 
>> bit of reverse 
>> understanding would be appropriate as well.
>
>Yeah, exactly. But 90% of the changes made to kspread.po were *not* related
>to bugfixing.

Well, this new file that describes all functions in XML is probably where
all this comes from.

Note that if you eliminate all the other reasons for the new strings
(all the bug fixes previously mentionned), it's probably the only thing
that shouldn't have happened. But then.... is it really a big problem if the
description of the functions used by kspread are in English ? The function 
name is in English anyway. What is done is done, and the only thing now is, I 
think, deciding whether to translate that stuff or not. As Stephan says, I 
think it's more important to polish kdelibs and kdebase.

>Agree, but please read the whole thread at kde-i18n-doc to get a feeling how
>other translators feel - I'm *not* the only one complaining. 
>See http://lists.kde.org/?t=96998723000002&w=2&r=1

Just did, but since Thomas Diehl has been forwarding all the posts from there 
to the development mailing-lists, I didn't learn anything I didn't know 
before.

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