Re: evince string freeze breackage

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:23 +0200, Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
> 
> Today at 18:45, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> 
> > My apologies, I broke the string freeze in this evince commit:
> >
> > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/ps/ps-document.c?r1=1.55&r2=1.56
> 
> Nice that you reported it yourself.  Can you now tell us why is
> introducing these three strings
> 
> "Error while decompressing file\n"
> "Cannot open file.\n"
> "Failed to load document"
> 
> actually necessary and important at this stage of the game?
> 
> They are used only if g_locale_to_utf8 fails to convert filename to
> UTF-8 for display purposes, right?  (you can reuse the same string
> with something like g_strdup_printf(_("Cannot open file: %s\n"), "?")
> until string freeze ends.)

Wouldn't those be available in the GError passed back by
g_locale_to_utf8 anyway? And if those are user-facing messages, they
sure could use some love.

Cheers

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