Re: proposed string overhaul for battstat applet

[Tommi Vainikainen <thv iki fi>]

On 2004-08-05T08:40:26+0300, davyd madeley id au wrote:
> Patch to update translation (and a few related HIG bits and pieces) is
> here:
> 	http://davyd.angrygoats.net/battstat.patch

I18n aspects of this patch are not so well done. Do you know how to
use ngettext (ie. plurals) in especially get_remaining function?

Also this kind of changes are very ackward from translators' point of
view:

- label = gtk_label_new (_("Your battery is now fully recharged."));
+ label = gtk_label_new (_("<b>Your battery is now fully recharged.</b>"));

This means every translator must add those <b> tags to his/her
translation and compendums (=translation memory databases) will
increase in size without increase in amount of useful information. For
this kind changes, it is better to do this in runtime ie. something
like g_xxx_printf("<b>%s</b>", _("Your... recharged.")).

-- 
Tommi Vainikainen