Re: [gdm-list] String additions to 'gdm.gnome-2-30'

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mercredi 23 juin 2010 à 17:45 -0500, Brian Cameron a écrit :
> Claude/i18n team:
> 
> This is regarding the outstanding GDM 2.30.3 release.
> 
> Just to follow up, is it possible to have someone from the i18n team
> programmatically fix the msgid and msgstr strings to remove the
> underscore (or the "(_K)" from msgstr for non-Latin languages) for
> the following strings:
> 
>   + "Keyboard"
>       + "Language"
>       + "Session"
> 
> If so, that would be the best solution since it would allow us to spin
> a stable release with this important fix?
> 
> Or do we really need to backout these string changes before we can do a
> release?  Please advise since we would like to do a release as quickly
> as we can.

It might be possible for the first two, but as "Sessions" became
"Session", it is *not* possible to automate a change for this plural
change.

Claude

>  > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
>  > wrote:
>  >> Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 23:00 -0400, William Jon McCann a écrit :
>  >>> Hi,
>  >>>
>  >>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> 
> wrote:
>  >>> > Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 09:09 +0200, Claude Paroz a écrit :
>  >>> >> Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 01:49 +0000, GNOME Status Pages a écrit :
>  >>> >> > This is an automatic notification from status generation 
> scripts on:
>  >>> >> > http://l10n.gnome.org.
>  >>> >> >
>  >>> >> > There have been following string additions to module
>  >>> >> >'gdm.gnome-2-30':
>  >>> >> >
>  >>> >> > + "Keyboard"
>  >>> >> >     + "Language"
>  >>> >> >     + "Session"
>  >>> >> >
>  >>> >> > Note that this doesn't directly indicate a string freeze
>  >>> >> > break, but it might be worth investigating.
>  >>> >>
>  >>> >> Hi Jon,
>  >>> >>
>  >>> >> The commit 1b334350 (Remove text labels for option menus) in
>  >>> >> gnome-2-30 branch of GDM is breaking string freeze. Could this
>  >>> >> be reverted or is it a critical fix for which an exception
>  >>> >> should be asked for?
>  >>>
>  >>> Sorry for the delay.  I wanted to discuss it with some other people
>  >>> before responding.
>  >>>
>  >>> I think I'd prefer to ask for an exception for this one.  The string
>  >>> change is simply removing underscores.  But the bug that it fixes
>  >>> is a somewhat important one.  The GDM greeter, in most cases, would
>  >>> not fit on a 1024x768 size screen before this change (even in
>  >>> English).
>  >>>
>  >>> The general bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620893
>  >>
>  >> I would be rather enclined to accept it, but now the time remaining 
>  >> for translators to fix these strings is short for the 2.30.2 GNOME
>  >> release, isn't it?
>  >
>  > Is there a way we can programmatically remove the "_" from the
>  > existing translated strings?  Or at least get close?
>  >
>  > Jon