Re: Proposed: Evolution (and associated libs)

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 12:47, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 16:18, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 15:17, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > > It's certainly the case for evolution on a couple of the branches:
> > > on one of them almost 40% (of 6000 strings) of the po file was 
> > > placenames. Many of them (but not all) overlapped with the 
> > > placenames in the weather applet. Hmm, let me look. 
> > > 
> > > HEAD looks very little different. "Aarhus" appears 49% of the
> > > way into the file; and "Zurich" completes the list at 84% of
> > > the way in (by line count rather than strings). There is also
> > > a set of world countries (most of them) and a lot of time zones.
> > > And our old favourites, "Shallow snow grains", "Freezing precipitation",
> > > "Drifting fog", "Blowing volcanic ash", "Thunderous sandstorm"
> > > and "Funnel cloud in the vicinity".
> > > 
> > > You know, for 2.8, there is a _really_ good case for getting
> > > together with gweather and pulling these out into a library;
> > > because these weather ones and half the placenames are all in 
> > > gweather as well, so they are getting translated twice over.
> > 
> > The summary view has been removed in Evo HEAD, so these strings should
> > be removed.  I guess the source files are still hanging around, and
> > po/POFILES.in should be updated.
> 
> Doesn't evo need to know where you are anyway? For scheduling
> appointments in different timezones and so on? So the placenames are
> still needed.

The timezone names are kept in a different place and are more limited in
number (375 or so). 

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
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