Re: String Freeze break for Tweaks

[Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>]

2017-09-11 1:55 GMT+02:00 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com>:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com> wrote:
> > The deadline is in two days, so I’m afraid I can’t give you a +1.
>
> The only known use of this string is for Ubuntu 17.10 and 17.10 won't
> release until after Tweaks 3.26.1 is released in 3 weeks.
>
> I mean there is a second option for Ubuntu and that's to just patch
> the new string in there and use Launchpad for translations. Generally,
> only Ubuntu 'main' packages uses Launchpad but universe packages like
> gnome-tweak-tool can opt in. I'd rather see those translations go into
> GNOME directly though…

I reaaally dislike Ubuntu replacing upstream translations, but that’s
not relevant right now…

> Or the setting could temporarily go in Ubuntu's Dock settings panel in
> their gnome-control-center. (The Dock panel like many of Ubuntu's
> tweaks is present in the "Ubuntu" session but not the available
> "GNOME" session.)
>
> Tweaks is sometimes used to work around late changes elsewhere so I
> think maybe a bit more flexibility is appropriate?

I’m willing to give a +1 for adding the string after the 3.26.0
release. So we get a “clean” .0 release, three weeks to translate it,
and Ubuntu is satisfied.

Best regards,

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Piotr Drąg
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