Re: Translation of Metacity



Hi!

Well, I translated the string myself and thought mostly the same. The
string itself is maybe not the problem but the whole option seems to be
crap because it "can lead to buggy behaviour". Maybe you should file a
bug to remove this option completely.

Regards,
Johannes

Stéphane Raimbault schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Metacity contains the following string:
> 
> #: ../src/metacity.schemas.in.h:78
> msgid ""
> "Setting this option to false can lead to buggy behavior, so users are "
> "strongly discouraged from changing it from the default of true. Many actions "
> "(e.g. clicking in the client area, moving or resizing the window) normally "
> "raise the window as a side-effect. Set this option to false to decouple "
> "raising from other user actions. Even when this option is false, windows can "
> "still be raised by an alt-left-click anywhere on the window, a normal click "
> "on the window decorations, or by special messages from pagers, such as "
> "activation requests from tasklist applets. This option is currently disabled "
> "in click-to-focus mode. Note that the list of ways to raise windows when "
> "raise_on_click is false does not include programmatic requests from "
> "applications to raise windows; such requests will be ignored regardless of "
> "the reason for the request. If you are an application developer and have a "
> "user complaining that your application does not work with this setting "
> "disabled, tell them it is _their_ fault for breaking their window manager "
> "and that they need to change this option back to true or live with the bug "
> "they requested. See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445447#c6.";
> 
> Do you think it's really necessary to translate a string of this
> length in 133 langages?
> 
> This string is a ranting, may be just a summary and a link are necessary.
> Does someone else think I must create a bug report?
> 
> Regards,
> Stéphane
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