Re: Splitting gnome-games into domains

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Tino Meinen wrote:

> On ma, 2005-08-08 at 15:33 +0200, Danilo Åegan wrote:
>  
>
> > Today at 14:40, Tino Meinen wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > If gnome-games is split up, will it not mean we would have to
> > > translate: 
> > > msgid "quit"  and other common messages for every single game?
> > >      
> > No if it's a Gtk+ stock item, or if you're using a translation memory
> > (which you should, really). 
> >    
> I know, I'm using my brain as translation memmory right now, but luckily
> it's pretty stable at present.
>
> gnome-games doesn't always use gtk+stock items ?
> for example:
>
> #. not translated on purpose
> #: ../aisleriot/menu.c:205 ../blackjack/src/blackjack.cpp:311
> #: ../glines/glines.c:1710 ../gnect/src/main.c:1133 ../gnibbles/main.c:602
> #: ../gnobots2/menu.c:60 ../gnome-stones/main.c:1052
> #: ../gnometris/tetris.cpp:132 ../gnomine/gnomine.c:759
> #: ../gnotravex/gnotravex.c:178 ../gnotski/gnotski.c:631
> #: ../gtali/gyahtzee.c:513 ../mahjongg/mahjongg.c:1257 ../same-gnome/ui.c:427
> msgid "_Help"
> msgstr ""
>
>  
>
> > > It would seem to me that splitting gnome-games into different domains is
> > > overkill when there is a problem with just two messages. Wouldn't adding
> > > a context to the offending messages be an easier way to solve this?
> > >      
> > Agreed.  But is it really just two messages?  Are there maybe others
> > which we don't even know about?
> >    
> Perhaps, I don't know, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be all that many.
>
> I just had a quick look at the po file and there are only a handfull of
> messages that are being used in more than one game. And some of those
> don't need different contexts as well I believe. 
> For instance: 
> #: ../blackjack/src/blackjack.cpp:317 ../gnobots2/gnobots2.schemas.in.h:23
> msgid "Show toolbar"
> msgstr ""
>
> or 
>
> #: ../aisleriot/sol.c:412 ../glines/glines.c:1967 ../gnobots2/statusbar.c:65
> #: ../gnome-stones/status.c:71 ../gnometris/scoreframe.cpp:58
> #: ../gnomine/gnomine.c:441
> msgid "Score:"
> msgstr ""
>
>
>
> I think it is best not to split gnome-games and go with the solution
> Alexander Shopov suggests for the few messages that have
> context-problems.
>  
I second that.

Simos