Re: String additions to 'gtk+-properties.HEAD'

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Kjartan,

Yesterday at 10:49, Kjartan Maraas wrote:

> tir, 11.09.2007 kl. 09.36 +0200, skrev Johannes Schmid:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> >     There have been following string additions to module
>> >     'gtk+-properties.HEAD ':
>> > 
>> >         + "How long to show the last input character in hidden entries"
>> > 
>> > I think its OK. => http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475400 | 
>> > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/trunk/gtk/gtkentry.c?r1=18761&r2=18790
>> > <http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/trunk/gtk/gtkentry.c?r1=18761&r2=18790>
>> 
>> It's not really OK IMHO! They changed a string in string freeze to
>> correct a typo. This means that all translations are now broken for the
>> benefit that the english version is now OK. You can assume that most
>> translation have no typo but a correct string.
>> 
>> At least I don't think it is a exception from string freeze as defined here:
>> http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes
>> 
> I guess I should have notified the i18n mailing list at the least, but
> my reasoning was that Gtk+ doesn't follow the GNOME freezes and schedule
> strictly. Maybe I was wrong in assuming this?

That's correct, but it's still silly to fix a typo this late in the
game: you are breaking around hundred translations in the process.
FWIW, I won't count gtk+/po-properties (or gnome-applets/po-locations)
for the "supported" measure in the release notes, but there is still
no need to commit things like these a week before the release.

Cheers,
Danilo