Re: "Automatic" UI translations showing word translations along with original

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On à., 2005-08-17 at 16:31 +0200, Danilo Åegan wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> 
> Today at 14:55, Ross Golder wrote:
> 
> > However, I still it would be even cooler (and less cluttered) to be able
> > to toggle between two languages (and have all the windows re-translate
> > themselves on the fly) as easily as switching between keyboard layouts.
> 
> It would be nice and fun, but not possible in the short term
> (everything would have to be rewritten, since a lot of stuff is using
> cached gettext() calls, etc.).
> 
> > This would also work for languages where translating individual words is
> > not so straightforward (as the real, full, confirmed translation will
> > then be visible). I still haven't looked for or reported this as a
> > feature request in bugzilla yet (/me kicks himself).
> 
> We had this discussion somewhere recently (I don't remember if it was
> here, on d-d-l, in Bugzilla or on IRC), and we all agree it would be
> desireable, but not that easy to implement (actually, it would be
> quite simpler if you are writing a new application and not using any
> Gtk+ stock items).
> 

OK, not easy, but it can't be all that hard, surely? :) I can see it'll
need a lot of changes in a lot of places (such as making gettext be able
to rebind to a new language), but... well, at the least we should
probably figure out exactly what would be involved (get advice from the
relevant module maintainers etc) and see if we can make it happen.

Anyway, I can see translators falling asleep at their e-mail clients.
Like someone said before, this is probably more appropriately continued
on a bugzilla ticket:

> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313736

/me unkicks himself

Cheers,

--
Ross