Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

Hi Claude,

(please keep nautilus-list gnome org and alexl in the Cc)

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:34 +0100, Claude Paroz wrote:
> Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 15:43 -0500, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> > Hey Alex,
> > 
> > (Hi i18n team: there's a string break request near the end of this
> > mail)
> > 
> (snip)
> > 
> > i18n team: This is in the patch that adds new strings
> > 
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gvfs-fixes-2.patch
> > 
> > Most of the strings are in the gphoto2 backend. Almost all of them
> > (except one or two) are not user-visible under normal circumstances as
> > they are mostly error messages. Requesting permission to commit this.
> > Thanks.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Please don't ask translators to 'decypher' patches :-P
> You won't obtain the green light if you don't motivate this a little
> more. Concerning not user-visible strings, don't mark them for
> translation now, and keep a bug open to not forget to mark them after
> module branching.


OK, the non-essential error messages have been unmarked for translation
but are easy to add back. I've filed a bug for this

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518284

and referenced the bug in the source code too.

> If there are user-visible strings, tell us which strings are concerned
> and why this is critical for GNOME 2.22.

With the new patch 

 http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gvfs-fixes-3.patch

here's what changed

Strings changed:

 C1 "Audio Disc on %s" changed to "cdda mount on %s"

Strings added:

 A1: "%s Audio Player"
 A2: "Audio Player"
 A3: "gphoto2 mount on %s"
 A4: "Digital Camera (%s)"

Analysis: Of these the strings C1 and A3 are only visible for
commandline users as they are used only in ~/.gvfs (it's an open
question if we should even translate such strings). The remaining
strings are only visible when connecting cameras and audioplayers using
PTP/MTP. As most of such devices use mass storage these days, few users
will see them anyway. 

So hoping this analysis explains that the i18n impact of this change is
pretty low. Requesting permission to land these string changes. Thanks!

       David