Re: [Gimp-developer] How to deal with UI string changes?

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 02:16:25PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:14:07AM +0200, scl wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I came across some UI strings that are either
> > > not or incorrectly translated in 2.8.
> > > They range from single strings to a whole dialog.
> >
> > If you found that the strings are wrong and you think you know how
> > to correct those strings then you can either:
> >
> >  - correct them right away or
> >  - file a bug
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-8&id=95b2375ce18a6d5722f582b09e212b89bc0452f7
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-8&id=0bc0078dec2eaec43a5f52fa5bff4db312303935
>
> Based on  this, what would be the point of fixing anything?

These are not translations.
IMHO usually in a stable branch corrections to the strings are due only to important bugs 
in the messages. Small corrections could always be committed to the master (dev) branch.

Forgive the bad english.

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Marco Ciampa

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