Re: String review

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

On 09/21/2005 02:49 PM, Christian Persch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For quite some time, the general inconsistency of strings in the various
> GNOME modules has irritated me. For example, let's just look at some
> strings in GNOME:
>
> bug-buddy:
> "There already exists a file name '%s'.\n\nDo you wish to overwrite
> this file?"
>
> eog 1:
> "Overwrite file %s?"
> eog 2:
>  "A file named '%s' already exists."
>
> epiphany:
> "A file %s already exists."
>
> evo 1:
> "%s already exists\nDo you want to overwrite it?"
> evo 2:
> "A file by that name already exists.\nOverwrite it?"
>
> galeon:
> "The file %s already exists.\nDo you want to replace it?"
>
> gedit 1:
>  "A file named \"%s\" already exists.\n"
> gedit 2:
> "The file \"%s\" already exists"
>
> gnome-screenshot:
> "The file \"%s\" already exists.  Would you like to replace it?"
>
> gseachtool:
> "The document \"%s\" already exists.  Would you like to replace it?"
>
> gnumeric:
> "A file called <i>%s</i> already exists in %s.\n\nDo you want to save
> over it?"
>
> nautilus-cd-burner:
> "A file named \"%s\" already exists.  Do you want to overwrite it?"
>
> totem:
> "A file named '%s' already exists.  Are you sure you want to overwrite
> it?"
>
>  
Going forward, we can fix this specific case by using 
gtk_file_chooser_set_do_overwrite_confirmation () which is new in GTK+ 2.8.

But, yeah, there are other instances of different strings.  I'll go make 
popcorn, this could be an interesting thread.