Re: gnome-screensaver UI review changes

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Danilo,

Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Hi Calum, William,
>
> Today at 16:14, Calum Benson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Perhaps:
>
> Row 1: username
> Row 2: hostname
>
> (Without the "Row %d:" labels, of course ;)
>
> I don't know how would it affect the UI or would this be clean enough.

I don't really think that will work.

> Anyway, you've got my I18N approval, but at least add a suggestive
> translator comment such as "Translators: You can translate this to
> '%s %s' if it's otherwise tricky for your language".  Not sure if
> you've got two release team approvals already, though :)

That is a very reasonable solution.  I've added this comment to CVS.

Oh, perhaps I misinterpreted John's approval?  If so can I get another 
approval post facto?

> Translators: my reasoning here is that while tricky to localise, it's
> something we want to have.  And stopping all languages from having
> useful data because of l10n problems is not too good.  Of course, if
> we can find better solution which would work great for all or more
> languages, that's what we'll go with.

Well said.  I concur.  :)

Thanks folks,
Jon