El mar, 29-10-2002 a las 18:00, Christian Rose escribió: > tis 2002-10-29 klockan 13.22 skrev Sven Neumann: > > > > I see these advantages of using a single label instead of a vbox with > > > > two labels: > > > > > > > > (1) it's much easier to implement > > > > > > On the other hand, it's also much more difficult to translate and > > > maintain the translation of. Also, the implementation only needs to be > > > done once, while it will need to be translated up to 40 times, one for > > > each language. > > > > there are 40 different people doing this so the work is distributed > > quite nicely and it's only a little annoying anyway. I'd say that > > putting the burden on the developers is not an issue. > > There are 40 different teams(*), but there are at least 166 different > GNOME modules with translations(**), and different branches on top of > that. > > Consider that each one of these on average has a few of these messages, > and most of the translation teams are just two people or even less, and > you'll hopefully realize that this problem has a large impact for > translators. And, if you only think this is a little "nuisance", you > forgot to read my entire mail to begin with. > Also, you should not forgot that some errors with the markups could break your application and made it unusable (I'm thinking in my gnome-about bug report, it's a "stupid" application, but the same bug with nautilus/evolution/*, where * is any GNOME application, is really bad, because you cannot test it for all locales before the release and the translators are not available 24h/day so you will need to fix the bug yourself for every locale. If you use "The right solution" (TM) you will not need to care about it. Cheers. > > Christian > > > (*) Well there used to be. There's more teams now. > (**) Fresh info from the translation status pages > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Carlos Perelló Marín mailto:carlos gnome-db org mailto:carlos perello hispalinux es http://www.gnome-db.org http://www.Hispalinux.es Valencia - Spain
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