Re: [g-a-devel] Are action names localized?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

At present the set of 'known action names' is pretty small.

As such, GOK can call the gettext() macro on the non-localized name, and 
handle the localization of this small pool of names itself.

We intentionally left action names unlocalized to date, because of 
reasons in your "case for 'no'" below; action names are 'generic' in 
that they describe a small set of actions that should be common across 
toolkits; in that sense they are like an enumeration (except that new 
ones can be added if no old one suffices for a given use case).

It would be feasible to add getLocalizedActionName() to the at-spi IDL 
and to atk, compatibly, as the AtkAction method currently has one unused 
'slot'.

Bill

David Bolter wrote:
> Fixed resend of message.
>
> Should the action names exposed by accessible widgets/components be
> localized?
>
> The case for "yes":
> AT like GOK can just expose the localized action names to the user as 
> GOK keys without having to worry about english user literacy.
>
> The case for "no":
> AT like Orca can do neat things like script for specific action names
> such as "cycle" or "toggle", and provide a better user experience. If
> Orca scripted for "toggle" but in Klingon it was in fact "snarklegruff",
> then the script would fail. Expecting Orca to translate cycle into
> Klingon in the same way as the author of the app widget did doesn't seem
> reasonable.
>
> AT-SPI's AccessibleAction_getDescription should of course be expected to
> return localized strings.
>
> I suppose ideally we could have API:
> getUniversalActionName
> getActionName
> getActionDescription
>
> But we don't. So what should we do?  Note: if we say "yes" we still need
> to solve the keying off action name problem.  If we say no, GOK has the
> fallback of using (a hopefully short) action description to build key
> labels. If I don't hear back, I'll assume action names are not localized.
>
> cheers,
> David
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