Re: Translating schema files (was: Re: Survey results (yay!))

[Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:
> El dl 01 de 11 de 2010 a les 18:35 +0100, en/na Jorge González González
> va escriure:
>> El lun, 01-11-2010 a las 19:29 +0200, Ihar Hrachyshka escribió:
>>
>> > You're wrong when speaking about "normal user". Normal user:
>> > 1) either use Google or NOT for searching problem solutions;
>> > 2) should be able to fix the problem with no external help (google,
>> > friends, tech support). If not, then the software is wrong, the error
>> > messages are wrong, but the errors localisation is ok.
>> Well, obviously we don't deal with the same "normal users".
>>
>> >
>> > So though I'm for separating schema messages, I'm against separating
>> > errors from UI messages.
>> I'm against separating them since it will include more files to push and
>> handle, but I'm against translating them at all.
>
> My first idea was to split to different files, but Simo's approach was
> about giving D-L the ability to show different filtered files from the
> same file (and only one po file in git).
>
> So you then would be able to either translate everything (errors,
> schemas and "ui") or just some parts (first only the ui, then the errors
> and finishing with the schemas).
>
> That way keeping only a single file for each module but showing them as
> a separate files small teams and new contributors would feel that their
> translations make sense from the very beginning.
>
> Then the question is how to create this filters and implementing them in
> D-L.
>
> Anyone is up to this?
>
> Cheers,

But how would you reliably distinguish between error messages and
non-error messages?  I'm not convinced that this can be done without
requiring unreasonable work from programmers.

Regards
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