Re: [gdm-list] String additions to 'gdm.gnome-2-30'

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Claude/i18n team:

This is regarding the outstanding GDM 2.30.3 release.

Just to follow up, is it possible to have someone from the i18n team
programmatically fix the msgid and msgstr strings to remove the
underscore (or the "(_K)" from msgstr for non-Latin languages) for
the following strings:

 + "Keyboard"
     + "Language"
     + "Session"

If so, that would be the best solution since it would allow us to spin
a stable release with this important fix?

Or do we really need to backout these string changes before we can do a
release?  Please advise since we would like to do a release as quickly
as we can.

Thanks,

Brian


> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
> wrote:
>> Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 23:00 -0400, William Jon McCann a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> 
wrote:
>>> > Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 09:09 +0200, Claude Paroz a écrit :
>>> >> Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 01:49 +0000, GNOME Status Pages a écrit :
>>> >> > This is an automatic notification from status generation 
scripts on:
>>> >> > http://l10n.gnome.org.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > There have been following string additions to module
>>> >> >'gdm.gnome-2-30':
>>> >> >
>>> >> > + "Keyboard"
>>> >> >     + "Language"
>>> >> >     + "Session"
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Note that this doesn't directly indicate a string freeze
>>> >> > break, but it might be worth investigating.
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Jon,
>>> >>
>>> >> The commit 1b334350 (Remove text labels for option menus) in
>>> >> gnome-2-30 branch of GDM is breaking string freeze. Could this
>>> >> be reverted or is it a critical fix for which an exception
>>> >> should be asked for?
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delay.  I wanted to discuss it with some other people
>>> before responding.
>>>
>>> I think I'd prefer to ask for an exception for this one.  The string
>>> change is simply removing underscores.  But the bug that it fixes
>>> is a somewhat important one.  The GDM greeter, in most cases, would
>>> not fit on a 1024x768 size screen before this change (even in
>>> English).
>>>
>>> The general bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620893
>>
>> I would be rather enclined to accept it, but now the time remaining 
>> for translators to fix these strings is short for the 2.30.2 GNOME
>> release, isn't it?
>
> Is there a way we can programmatically remove the "_" from the
> existing translated strings?  Or at least get close?
>
> Jon