Re: Question about gtranslator

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists googlemail com>]

Salam for the comments Seán,

I will try and build gtranslator's GOBJECT_WORK branch some time soon
and test it.


>     Djihed, you may have addressed this and I just missed it, but one
> thing I'd like to see addressed is the location of positions of strings
> in the code. My own personal opinion (which has no reflection on what's
> right) was that they do not belong in the comments box and should
> instead be available from right-click as in PoEdit, although Ignacio
> quite rightly pointed out that not all users will make use of the
> message table and thus this won't work quite as well. Both feedback on
> current placement ideas as well as novel ideas would be greatly
> appreciated here.
>

I thought it was good there (in the screenshot).

The thing is, most of the time those boxes are empty anyway, and doing
it the poedit way will mean making users 1) discover it at some point
2) move their mouse every time they'd like to get the context.

As for novel ideas for the interface, I keep thinking about this a
lot, and I am having trouble imagining a better layout than the
current one  that doesn't always have some drawbacks. For example,
having the messages editable in place in the message table will pose
some problems with regards to the size of the input area and the
attention span of the translators.

Cheers,

Djihed


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> Seán de Búrca
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