Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution Errors

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:17 -0500, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> True.  I included the glade file to be helpful.  
> 
> What's the best form for these messages to be in?  They're in a CSV file
> right now that I can easily convert to just about anything.  (Including
> simplistic patches.)  But if the two sets of text are going to be
> separate then maybe a patch isn't the best form at the moment.
> 
> (BTW -- using separate strings for the primary text and the secondary
> text will certainly increase the number of strings to be translated and
> may make context less clear.  Maybe they should continue to be long
> strings?)

Sigh.  The main reason for not wanting to do this is it very tightly
integrates the strings with the code/library/version we're using to
display them.  If we decide to change the display format of the strings,
or decide to display them in a different manner, or log them to disk, or
all manner of other things, we now have hard-coded, pango-specific
strings we have to frob around with.

e.g. what if we've decided to just show the main error with a 'details'
expander?  We can't if we've gone and merged the strings in one.

Even some custom markup would be better, although more work.  e.g.
<error>xxx</error><detail>woohoo!</detail>

The other problem however is we actually need the api to support the
dual strings ... and since we don't, i guess we can do whatever, we
don't have much time either way.