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



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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