Re: gnome-games

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tor 2004-01-22 klockan 05.31 skrev Danilo Segan:
> > No, it shouldn't be translated. These strings will be replaced with
> > text generated with either numbers or other text which has already been 
> > translated. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to tell glade not to 
> > mark a label for translation or how to provide a comment for translators
> > in glade. Any better solutions about how to handle this are welcome.
> 
> I just posted a patch to new intltool list to allow comments for 
> translators in XML files:
>   http://pdx.freedesktop.org/pipermail/intltool/2004-January/000001.html
> 
> It's easy to extend to support Glade files as well, but I don't want
> to rush it off now, and introduce a bug like I did with my last patch
> for intltool.
> 
> OTOH, there is a problem because Glade discards hand-made comments in
> files once you edit them with it.  I don't know how to solve that,
> except to ask developers to reinsert all comments after editing
> dialogs, which surely sucks.

Indeed.
In a similar way, there is actually a way to make glade messages not
being marked for translation by editing the "translatable" attribute in
the glade file manually, but since the Glade tool doesn't support
setting it, it will overwrite and reset it to "yes" every time Glade is
used. And this happens all the time as time has shown, so support in
Glade is really needed for this and the comments thing to be usable by
developers. As such, I don't think any hack that will only work by
editing the glade file manually can really be treated as a real solution
to the problem.


Christian