Re: gedit schemas file warning.

[Damien Donlon <damien donlon ireland sun com>]

Christian Rose wrote:
> 
> On 30 May 2002, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > > > Thank you Kenneth! Is there a good general awareness of this among
> > > > the package maintainers i.e have they updated their package
> > > > POTFILES.in to include .schemas.in files? In a spot check of :
> > > >
> > > > gedit                 gnome-control-center  gnome-utils
> > > > ggv                   gnome-desktop         gperfmeter
> > > > ghex                  gnome-media           nautilus
> > > > glade                 gnome-panel
> > > > gnome-applets         gnome-session
> > > >
> > > > ..I only see references to .schemas in the POTFILES.in of gnome-panel,
> > > > gnome-utils & gedit yet most of these modules contain .schemas files
> > > > in their sources.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe they don't all have translatable content but it might be an idea
> > > > to send a reminder to the gnome-hackers alias.
> > >
> > > I think this is a bad idea. We are only four days away from deep freeze
> > > (when not even translation updates will be allowed as I understand it) and
> > > adding schemas.in translation to all modules will result in a huge load of
> > > new strings to translate across most GNOME modules.
> >
> > But those strings are already without translations so it does nothing
> > but let some translator translate them (if they have time...).
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the problem. Four days is *very* little time, and for the
> languages and modules where Sun has been doing their translation review
> (which we haven't recieved yet afaik) we'll still both need to
> review and complete those in four days, with all the string changes that
> were made to the modules in the mean time where we weren't supposed to
> update the translations of those modules.

I am awaiting commit access to Gnome CVS for delivering these.
If anyone is willing to take the files in a gzipped mail 
attachment in the meantime then mail me. My testing on them
has been limited to msgfmt & msgcmp comparisons against the latest files
in Gnome CVS. Because so many files were updated within the community
while we were translating we had to do a merge to the latest community
files. I am anxious to get feedback on whether this merge worked
correctly - particularly around fuzzy match strings.

I agree with Christian that it is probably a bad idea to
have module owners making lots of additions for .schemas so close to
a freeze.

Regards,
Damien

> 
> Adding a lot of schema messages to be translated across most if not all
> modules during the same time seems like an impossible task to cope with.
> And the schemas messages aren't *that* important.
> 
> So it seems that adding these schemas for translation now will only make
> it impossible for having *any* fully translated languages with 2.0.0. And
> I think that would be bad. Let's add those for 2.0.x.
> 
> Christian

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