Re: String freeze break for gnome-software for 42.1

[Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>]

*bump* 🙂

On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 21:59 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can we have a string freeze break for gnome-software to add more
> information about file system permissions required by flatpak apps?
>
> Currently when flatpak apps request custom or unusual file system
> permissions, gnome-software incorrectly says the app “has access to
> no
> files”. The existing translatable strings we have in gnome-software
> 42.0 only give us the option of instead saying the app “can
> read/write
> all your data”, which is a bit wide.
>
> We’d like to add three more strings to provide a middle ground,
> saying
> the app “can access arbitrary files”.
>
> The change is here:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/1317
>
> The new strings are listed here:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/1317#note_1429466
>
> I realise you’re probably not going to be happy about this! There are
> a
> few options, and we’ll go with whatever the i18n team prefer:
>
>  1. Add these new translatable strings now, in time for the 42.1
> release (this week). This means the bug will be fixed, but the
> strings
> will likely not be translated in many languages.
>
>  2. Add these new translatable strings after the 42.1 release, to
> give
> more time for them to be translated ready for 42.2.
>
>  3. Don’t add these new strings on 42.x at all, and use the
> inappropriate-but-already-existing “can read/write all your data”
> string instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Philip