Re: gnome-screensaver UI review changes

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 15 Feb 2006, at 12:38, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:

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> William Jon McCann wrote:
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> > The translatable string is _("%s on %s") and it will have a  
> > comment for
> > translators that says:
> > Translators: this is "username on hostname"
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> 'username on hostname' is a potential minefield for L10n teams - is  
> this
> really required ?

The main point of the comment in the UI review was to have the  
hostname visible /somewhere/ in the window (so that someone who walks  
up to a locked display can still find out the hostname, which is  
quite often useful)... on reflection I'd agree that "username on  
hostname" probably wasn't the best suggestion though.

If anyone can suggest any nice, l10n-friendly ways to do this, feel  
free-- otherwise, we should probably just file it as a bug and fix it  
in 2.16 when we've had more time to think about it.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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