Re: krb5-auth-dialog propsal

[Guido Günther <agx sigxcpu org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:13:31PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
[..snip..] 
> Most of these aren't from krb5-auth-dialog itself. They were extracted
> from com_err .et files of MIT Kerberos itself to make them translatable.
> Restricting the extraction to src/lib/krb5/error_tables instead of the
> whole Kerberos source tree reduces the numboer of strings by a factor of
> two.  Limiting the list to the most common errors returned by the
> Kerberos libs would make sense.
I've implemented this and also added a note to translators where the
strings in dummy-strings.c come from so they can skipped easily.

> > strings, most of them very technical and not easily translatable.
> > Just to pick up one example, I wonder if any average user will
> > understand "Programmer error!  Bad Admin server handle" and if any
> > translator knows what is meant here and if this should really be
> > displayed to the end user.
> > There are lots of such strings, hence I definitely request a review of
> > all translatable strings before I would accept this for GNOME.
> > 
> > Also, is there any documentation available?
> Except for the above URL and the README not yet.
It ships a manual now.
 -- Guido