Re: GIMP Tip of the Day messages

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:

> Hmm, would it be possible to make GIMP tips translatable in a po file in
> the future? That would probably ease translation, since gettext has some
> nice features: it's easy to compare the original message and the
> translation, easy to spot messages that changed or new messages, and so
> on.
> The messages could be put in a header file, or an XML file of some sort
> (if you use intltool/xml-i18n-tools). If it's too much to put in
> gimp.pot, it could be a translation catalog of its own.
> 
> What do you think?

I'm all for it. I have already considered doing such a change in gimp 
HEAD. I'd favor a separate translation domain for the tips since we
could avoid to bind to this domain until the tips dialog is actually
shown. A header file with static strings should probably do the trick
most easily or do you think an XML file would give any advantages?


Salut, Sven