Re: Do Apps Use a "Root" Locales?

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Daniel Yacob wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 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?
> 

Strings in gnome2 apps can also come from any number of ui 
libraries these are using - most probably from gtk+, libbonoboui,
libgnomeui but AFAIK all/most other libraries in the gnome2 
platform and  desktop also contain localisable strings. 

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

Could also be a simple bug

> thanks,
> 
> /Daniel
> 

	Sander

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