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[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

Åsmund Skjæveland <aasmunds@ulrik.uio.no> writes:

>
> The second example is translatable, but still a bug, since it splits a
> sentence.
>
> Is there a recommended English sentence to ask for instead when filing
> bugs?
>

Just ask for separate strings, i.e.
 Check for mail every <...> seconds
 Check for mail every <...> minutes
 Check for mail every <...> hours

But, since you're probably talking about UI issues, it would mean
introducing a context marker (because it cannot be "blah blah %s
blah").  Generally, composing sentences with UI elements is as bad as
composing them from a couple of strings, but it's hard to convince
developers about that, and we don't have a better solution to the
problem which we could propose to them.

At the same time, I'd like to see a ngettext-ized label "seconds",
"hours" etc. which changes according to the number in the spinbox, but
I don't complain until I get some time to actually work on something
like that ;)

So, there are quite a bit of problems there, which make GUI seem less
perfect.

Cheers,
Danilo