Re: [Evolution-hackers] Folders: Displayed/real names

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Di, den 01.06.2004, 17:40 Uhr -0400 schrieb Rodney Dawes:
> On Mar , 2004-06-01 at 23:27 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > During the i18n fixes I've written for Evo during the last few hours
> > I've seen that there are many locations where we need to display the
> > translated name of the following folders:
> > Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash (virtual), Junk (virtual). The
> > problem is that the name of the camel folder associated with them is
> > always untranslated for good reasons: the full_name/name struct members
> > seem to represent the folder path on the storage to the folder. Now, in
> > my opinion we've got two possibilities to resolve this issue:
> > We can either add a char *localized_name to the struct, and let it be
> > NULL for non-stock folders or do strcmp for all stock folders in many
> > locations (folder properties, bar above the folder treeview etc.).
> > To me, the matter seems to be more reasonable.
> > Comments, suggestions?
> 
> Why don't we just gettext () all folder names? It will Just Work then,
> and we don't have to add a strcmp () for every special folder ther is,
> or that may get added in the future. And for folders that aren't
> translated, you just end up with the string you passed in, anyway.

Because we've got a huge message catalog and a folder could
incidentially match another message that isn't folder-related.

regs,
 Chris