Re: String changes in Evolution

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 04 août 2008 à 21:38 +0200, Petr Kovar a écrit :
> Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>, Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:11:23 -0400:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 20:07 +0200, Petr Kovar wrote:
> > > Also, I'd like to point out that (quoting my own MsgctxtMigration
> > > comment) as of Aug 2008, Poedit, likely being used by many GNOME
> > > translators, doesn't have UI support for displaying msgctxt (in any
> > > form) yet, i.e. translator can't be aware of msgctxt lines being used
> > > in a template/catalog. This should be taken in account when preparing
> > > for migration. 
> > 
> > I can always revert the code back to Q_() macros if the infrastructure
> > isn't in place yet.  Just say the word.
> 
> Thanks for your reply! Speaking for myself, I'd prefer to wait until Poedit
> can support the change. Just because of software; I don't know whether the
> fact that the migration is still a proposal only really matters in relation
> to Evolution.

> But surely other voices should be heard, too. I don't intend
> to be solely anti-progress in any case. :-)

I'd say the editor should not be the blocker here, regarding the fact
that we can always resort to a text editor.
I think we should wait for 2.26 to widespread C_ usage, but it could be
a good idea to have one module allowing us to test the whole toolchain.
If Evolution wants to be the guinea pig, why not :-)

Claude