Re: msgctxt conversion for 2.26 ?

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Hi!

"Kenneth Nielsen" <k nielsen81 gmail com>, Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:34:54 +0100:

> 2008/10/27 Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>:
> > This was discussed at several points in the past, most recently in
> > August. Is http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/MsgctxtMigration something
> > that we should target for Gnome 2.26 ?
> 
> I definitely think so, the sooner we get rid of the "|" source of
> errors the better. Besides, if I remember correctly the only objection
> to fast integration of this, was that some popular translation tools
> didn't yet support it. 

Correct. It was (and unfortunately still is) Poedit, to be specific.
Thus, as I believe, a well known and widely used l10n tool among the GNOME
translators.

> Deciding on it now will give the developers on
> those projects a good 4 months to implement it, make a new release and
> have this new version find its way into the repos of the different
> distributions, that is not an abundance of time, but it should be
> do-able.

That's nice, but still, the problem is current from the moment the first
string migrates. And that was done some months ago. So many translators got
a problem now. But the most interesting part is what the MsgctxtMigration
page says:

"Warning:
This is only a proposal at this time, and not approved for project-wide
application. This should not be applied before being officially turned into
a GNOME Goal."

Oh really? Does anybody look at that? Does anybody give a damn about that?
Just wondering... ;-)

Best,
Petr Kovar