Re: Translating pictures

[Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail yahoo com>]

 --- Reinout van Schouwen <reinout@cs.vu.nl> wrote: >
Hi,
> 
> > And that will be the standard mechanism for doing
> > this? What about making the icon file names
> > translatable in GTK+ and ask translators to
> > replace this with their localized version, if they
> > have any?

Wouldn't a good way to localize icons/images be by
adding locale tags to them?
foo.png
foo_de.png
foo_de-CH.png
foo_RTL.png
foo_ar.png
foo_il.png

Most people would see foo, but those in most German
locales would see foo_de, except for the Swiss Germans
who would see foo_de-CH.
Most people in right-to-left locales would see foo_RTL
except people in Arabic locales who will see foo_ar
and people in Hebrew locales who will soo foo_il.

When loading an icon via a standard function, the
system would use a fairly standard best-fit-locale
fallback algorithm to find the best image.

Andrew Dunbar.

> If icons would we localizable- wow! The first icon I
> would change is the
> 'home' icon, in the Dutch translation the
> association with a home or a
> house is nonexistent so the icon is a bit out of
> place...
> 
> regards,
> 
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> 
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