Re: translator_credits

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> writes:

> To answer Svens original questions: there is nothing special about the
> name of the string because the GnomeAbout widget does not know anything
> about it. Application developers need to test the translated value
> themselves before deciding whether to pass _("translator_credit") or
> NULL in the appropriate parameter to the gnome_about_box_new() function.
> 
> *However*, about boxes which are constructed using Glade will use
> translator_credit and this should not be changed. This is because the
> widget construction code in libglade which creates the About box knows
> to look out for this string and not display a translators tab if the
> string is untranslated.

Since GIMP is not a GNOME application and thus not using the
GnomeAbout widget, your answer isn't that helpful but I think I can
draw some conclusions from it. Thanks for answering anyway.


Sven