Re: String freeze break request for Empathy

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

So, i18n team? Comments?

Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 15:39 -0400 schrieb Jonathan Tellier:
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> Hello,
> 
> I am an Empathy developer who has been working on the accounts
> management dialog lately. I have been fixing some bugs related to the
> new design of this dialog. However, in order to improve the user
> experience, some messages had to be added. Unfortunately, I have not
> been able to complete my modifications before the string freeze and I
> have to request a string freeze break. Here are the new messages added:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593054
> In the patch intended to address that bug, a string representing the
> default display name is created. The format of that string can vary
> depending on the protocol. Without this patch, the user could be
> confused if he has multiple IRC account or multiple accounts where there
> is no notion of "username". By default, the display name would be the
> "username" but in the two cases I just mentioned, all account would have
> the same display name. Here are code snippets where strings have been
> added:
> 
> [...]
> /* To translators: The first parameter is the login id and the
>  * second one is the server. The resulting string will be something
>  * like: "MyUserName on chat.freenode.net".
>  * You should reverse the order of these arguments if the
>  * server should come before the login id in your locale.*/
> default_display_name =
>     g_strdup_printf (_("%1$s on %2$s"), login_id, server);
> 
> [...]
> /* To translators: The parameter is the protocol name. The resulting
>  * string will be something like: "Jabber Account" */
> default_display_name = g_strdup_printf (_("%s Account"), protocol);
> 
> [...]
> default_display_name = g_strdup (_("New account"));
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592997
> To address that bug report, some messages have been added to inform the
> user that the modifications he has made to an account are about to be
> lost. He can then choose to proceed or not. There is not really another
> viable alternative that can be used to inform the user of the situation.
> Showing him those messages is pretty much the only option. Here are code
> snippets where strings have been added:
> 
> [...]
> message = g_strdup_printf (
>     _("There are unsaved modification regarding your %s account.\n"
>         "You are about to create a new account, which will discard\n"
>         "your changes. Are you sure you want to proceed?"),
>         empathy_account_get_display_name (account));
> 
> [...]
> message = g_strdup_printf (
>     _("There are unsaved modification regarding your %s account.\n"
>     "You are about to select another account, which will discard\n"
>     "your changes. Are you sure you want to proceed?"),
>     empathy_account_get_display_name (account));
> 
> [...]
> message = g_strdup_printf (
>   _("There are unsaved modifications regarding your %s account.\n"
>       "Are you sure you want to close the window? "),
>       empathy_account_get_display_name (account));
> 
> Please note that the actual content of those three messages might change
> a bit. The branch containing them has not yet been reviewed. The final
> version of those strings could be merged tomorrow at the latest.
> 
> I'm sorry for the inconvenience that this string freeze break can
> generate.
> 
> Jonathan Tellier
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