[Evolution-hackers] Re: "New" problems in Evolution

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mån 2003-10-20 klockan 10.17 skrev Gudmund Areskoug:
> >> And what's worse is that even a context system wouldn't really solve the
> >> Evolution problem, because the fundamental problem is that there is only
> >> one "New" menu entry.
[...]
> This "New" problem will probably not be the last that needs special 
> care. Switching from "New" to some other expression, like e. g. 
> "Create" would probably only break consistency and move the problem 
> on to some other languages.
> 
> Is it possible to solve this kind of problem well without a 
> "linguistically aware" system, like gettext seems to be evolving into?
> 
> Perhaps this simplified example how it may perhaps be done (g for 
> gender) could be a step on the way, before breaking out simplified 
> languages rules into separate files:
> 
> E. g. in po:
> msgid
> "New"
> msgstr [g1]
> "Ny"
> msgstr [g2]
> "Nytt"

I must admit I'm not sure what you're proposing. Are you proposing that
the label of the "New" button dynamically changes based on what object
is to be created? How would that work?


Christian