Hi!
In GIMP, we had a small bug in 2 strings:
"Grow lighter areas of the image" and "Grow
darker areas of the image".
Basically in our code, we declared the
strings with "drawable-action" context (hence
that was the msgctx registered in po files)
but called the translation with
"filters-action" context so they were not
translated.
I fixed the code to use "filters-action"
everywhere (the other was wrong), but the
wrong context is now in various po/*.po files
(43 files).
Do you mind if I just do a massive
search-and-replace for these 2 context/strings
to fix them? I mean, I actually already did it
locally (took 20 secs), and I think that it is
simpler than having everyone just edit
manually for what was basically just a code
bug. The actual context is the same (these
strings are filter descriptions, same place in
the GUI as what they were, nothing changed
GUI-wise). So that looks harmless to me.
Yet I have been told we should not touch
the po files ourselves, if possible.
So 2 questions:
1/ Is it ok if I just push this change?
2/ In the future, what should be our
process as developers when we just see these
kinds of code issues affecting the po files?
Can we just push (making our own decision that
this is not a translation issue) or we must
ask case by case?
Thanks for the awesome work, all!
Jehan
