Re: libgnomeui broke the string freeze



Hi,

Le lundi 04 septembre 2006, à 08:47, Andre Klapper a écrit :
> hej,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 03.09.2006, 20:56 -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> > On 9/3/06, Christian Rose <menthos gnome org> wrote:
> > > On 9/2/06, Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl> wrote:
> > > > The libgnomeui commit [1] by Kristian Rietveld introduced a new string [2],
> > > > which is unacceptable in string freeze, 4 days before a release. There has
> > > > not been any notification sent out to to gnome-i18n either...
> > > >
> > > > Please revert the patch or make sure you reuse an already existing string.
> > > >
> > > >   thanks, Wouter
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeui/file-chooser/gtkfilesystemgnomevfs.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81
> > > > [2] "Error getting information for '%s'"
> > >
> > > Indeed, this is not acceptable. Kris, could you please revert this
> > > string addition?
> > 
> > Reverting the patch would give you a gnome release with a very broken
> > filechooser. Do you really want that ?
> 
> assuming that the patch fixed
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352686 , i definitely do not
> want to see the patch reverted in its entirety.
> 
> > And removing the _() just for formal string freeze reasons would be a
> > bit silly, since the end effect would be just the same, an
> > untranslated error message...
> 
> in order to not break the string freeze, a (rather stupid?) workaround
> would be to use an already existing libgnomeui error message like either
> * msgid "Error reading file '%s': %s"
> * msgid "Error cannot find file id '%s'"
> * msgid "Error"
> (all three strings copied from the .po file)

Definitely agree with Andre. If there's no objection, let's go with
"Error" and we'll fix the string in 2.17.

Vincent


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