Re: Do Apps Use a "Root" Locales?

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog deaddog org>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Daniel Yacob wrote:

> After convincing gnome ghost view to speak amharic:
> 
> http://gnome.geez.org/Amharic/ggv.jpg
> 
> I was surprised by words that remained in English, "File",
> "Settings", "Help", etc.  Looking back thru ggv.po these
> msgids just weren't there.  Do gtk apps use a "root"
> locale of some sort for common terms?  If so what is
> the name of it?

I suppose those menu entries comes from libgnomeui.
Anybody can confirm or deny?


> I was also surprised that the spacing between the toolbar
> buttons expanded quite a bit.  Anyone know how to remedy
> that?

You have to ask this in desktop-devel-list.

Abel


> And while I'm asking questions...  Not that unix is want
> for more daemons and servers but I got to wondering if
> a vocabulary server had ever been attempted as a message
> catalog approach?  I'd like to read the findings of such
> an experiment.  I'm thinking along the lines of the role
> a font server has with respect to apps.

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