Re: [Fwd: Re: New string in gnome-control-center]

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tis 2004-03-02 klockan 22.30 skrev Sergey V. Udaltsov:
> >My view is that committing the warning will violate the string freeze if
> >it will be user-visible. It doesn't matter whether it's marked for
> >translation or not: adding a user-visible string *is* a string freeze
> >breakage.
>
> Absolutely. Just could please anyone answer a couple of questions:
> 1. Is it absolutely right that .xsession-errors is assumed to be 
> non-user-visible? At the end of the day, power user will see it as well, 
> won't he?
> 2. Again, I am asking - has anyone seen any strings from 
> gnome-session-daemon in .xsession-errors? On my system, stderr of g-s-d 
> is /dev/null - so user will NOT see anything g-s-d outputs to stderr. Is 
> it just my system?
> 
> >I increasingly feel that the translation team is seen by developers
> >merely as an obstacle to getting string changes into CVS.
>
> That's unfair. I really feel very deep respect to GTP, especially 
> knowing the importance of properly localized interfaces in Russia. And 
> initially I had doubts this breakage was really necessary at this stage. 
> But I really feel - this string should be there. Even untranslated 
> USER-VISIBLE message is 1E6 times better than no message at all. Just 
> letting g-s-d quietly ignore user configuration (even the weird one, in 
> some sense) could become a bad tradition which we would not like to 
> establish.

Just to clear things up -- the message(s) debated here have already been
approved and committed to cvs, right? Or am I confusing it with some
other string changes?


Christian