Re: gnome-applets wheater applet strings

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Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
| Considering the amount of change needed (the UI changed with the engine
| changes - that is the point of changing the engine), I decided it would
| be a lot easier to make the modifications I did.
|
| My hope is that I can get Dennis Cranston to reupdate his HIGifcation of
| the applet (since he did a lot of the work originally) and in the
| process bring the strings back to what they were a week ago (well the
| strings that should be the same).

Kevin, as this problem has been bought out, do you have some time to
have a look at #103813? I guess that can save translators some effort,
by eliminating wrong weather combinations (those does not exist in METAR
code). That means quite a lot of strings.

Abel

|
| Dennis, do you have time to do this?
|
| Anyways, I apologize to the translators for not emailing the list. I
| suggest you wait a few days so we can try to update the strings that
| were reverted and didn't need to be.
|
| Regards,
| Kevin
|
|
| On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 15:58, Christian Neumair wrote:
|
|>Am Mon, 2003-07-14 um 15.11 schrieb Kevin Vandersloot:
|>
|>>Hi Chris.
|>>
|>>On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:24, Christian Neumair wrote:
|>>
|>>>Hi Kevin!
|>>>I couldn't figure out your mail address, thanks to Hema Seetharamaiah
|>>>who pointed it out. Please include it in your ChangeLog entries.
|>>
|>>Yah, I'm trying to avoid putting my email adress due to bad spam
|>>problems.
|>>
|>>
|>>>But let's stick to the point:
|>>>I noted that you reverted a couple (if not all) of the 2.3.x changes to
|>>>the weather applet. By that, you added/changed hundret (~300) of strings
|>>>marked for translation. Is the current state of the strings consistent
|>>>or will the string changes from 2.3 get re-merged (like some other
|>>>gweather stuff) so that our recent efforts aren't lost?
|>>>Thanks in advance!
|>>
|>>For 2.3.x gweather was previously using a new improved server to
|>>download data which allowed for better forecast display. The server
|>>however has proved to be unreliable, so I had to revert all the changes
|>>yesterday such that the 2.3.x applet now is very similar to the 2.2.x
|>>applet.
|>>
|>>I guess we would want to merge the translations from the 2.2 branch, but
|>>I don't know how to do that.
|>>
|>>Otherwise, the strings should not change much anymore for 2.3.x now.
|>
|>I don't consider this a really good solution. You changed some mnemonics
|>and dozens of weather descriptions in 2.3, obviously you had a reason
|>for doing so. I have some questions regarding your decision (no, this is
|>no interrogation ;):
|>- why should you revert them to their former state, just because you
|>aren't satisfied by the stability of the new engine?
|>- Can't you separate them out from the 2.3.x changes?
|>- Are they really tied that tight to the engine itself?
|>- Why didn't you just try to stabilize the new gwheather implementation?
|>- why have you COMPLETELY dropped the new gweather applet?
|>- Is this really allowed, you broke the feature freeze, didn't you? Did
|>you inform the release team?
|>
|>I don't want to be harsh, but you didn't seem to be that cooperative.
|>Changing hundrets of string without dropping the gnome-i18n list a few
|>lines shouldn't be a common behavior.
|>
|>regs,
|> Chris
|
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