Re: Icon love

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:56, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> 
> I also think that (for example) the startup screen for gnome should also
> be using i18n. Some people does not understand why there is a "Welcome
> to your GNOME workstation" instead of a "Bienvenido a su estación de
> trabajo GNOME". I could understand all images without problems, but I'm
> using the locale "es_ES" and I expect to get all symbols/icons for my
> locale, here, at Spain (and I suppose, in other countries), some people
> does not know any english word and other ones hate a mix between english
> and spanish so It should be possible for us translate those things.
> 
> The code "hack" is as easy as a do: _("bold.png")
> 
yes, but then you need a set of icons for each locale, which is a lot of
work. It is better, IMO, what tigert suggested, which is to just use 'A'
for all those icons.

cheers
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