Re: String freeze break request for Vino

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

On 2/27/09, Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster gnome org> wrote:
> 2009-02-27 klockan 08:44 skrev Claude Paroz:
>
> > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 20:07 -0300, Jonh Wendell a écrit :
>  > > In order to fix bug 330691 [1], a new string is mandatory:
>  > > "Others can access your computer using the address %s or %s."
>  > > The good news is that it's just a variation of another string that already exists:
>  > > "Others can access your computer using the address %s"
>  > > Summary: Currently we show the IP address of the machine. With the append of the string "or %s" we show the avahi hostname as well.
>  > > [1] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330691
>
> > IMHO, we have now reached the time where we should only let critical
>  > string corrections in. To me, it doesn't appear to be such a critical
>  > fix. I'm sorry, but I'm -1 for this change now.
>
>
> Perhaps the string can be left as-is, and the value substituted for %s can
>  be made to look like "hostname (ip.add.re.ss)"? Otoh, using parentheses for
>  this might introduce problems for some languages (not sure about this).

I can imagine this would be a problem for RTL languages. So please no.


Christian