Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] Re: Gnome System Tools translation

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

Hi Christian!,

El vie, 14 de 02 de 2003 a las 18:27, Christian Rose escribió:
> fre 2003-02-14 klockan 00.23 skrev Carlos Garnacho:
> > I'm the GNOME System Tools maintainer, we were planning to make a new
> > release on this saturday, could you have a look at this? :-)
> 
> Thanks for the notice. However, the majority of these messages changes
> (there are thirtysomething of these) seem to only be changes in the tags
> surrounding strings in the messages, i.e. the exact problem as mentioned
> in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102134.
> 
> I know it's not a GST problem per se, but it's rather dismotivating
> spending a lot of time to "update a translation" when there's no actual
> translation at all involved, just gratious copy+pasting of side-effect
> junk that has no place in the translation to begin with, but rather just
> clobbers the translatable messages so that they are doomed to need
> updating until the end of time, when they really not ought to. Have you
> discussed this? Have you considered doing work-arounds for these
> messages? Is it possible? Or have you discussed this with glade
> developers? Is this fixable? What is required?
> 

I know that this is a pain for translators, and there is already a bug
opened to fix it in glade (the bug you opened, to which I'm CC-ed), but
it still seems to be unassigned... and the only work-around I could do
is to move these strings from glade to code, I haven't done this because
I consider it's just moving the problem from tranlators to developers,
as these strings don't have a special reason for being in code when all
the dialogs are in glade (really, I don't think this is a solution).
well, all that I can do is to talk with glade developers to offer my
little spare time...

        Regards

> 
> Christian
> 
> 
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