Re: 2.26 will use GTK+ 2.16

["Kenneth Nielsen" <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

2008/12/23 Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>:
> On 12/23/08, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo
>>  <diegoe gnome org> wrote:
>>  > On 12/22/08, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
>>  >> Hello beloved hackers!
>>  >>
>>  >>  The GTK+ team decided for a short 2.16 cycle, so it can already be
>>  >>  used for GNOME 2.26; this is great news and something many developers
>>  >>  wanted, as there are already interesting features:
> [...]
>>  also the ability to parse pango attributes on GtkLabel directly (allowing
>>  translatable strings without markup to have fancy pango sugar).
>
> Wohoo! This has been one of the most annoying issues for translators
> for many years. And now we have a solution in sight, perhaps even for
> GNOME 2.26! No more wasting time and resources on "translating"
> markup... I'm starting to feel sentimental, and my eyes are almost
> getting wet... A tremendously big thanks to everyone involved!
>
>
>>  Nice, I'm going to do my best to pump out some nice editing magic
>>  for the new GtkEntry features from Glade, and I'll see if I cant squeeze in
>>  some pango attribute support on other widgets than just label
>>  (I guess we can set attributes on entries too... not sure what else...)
>
> That would be awesome...!

This is indeed great. I don't quite get what he is talking about with
the "editing magic", so I don't know if it is the same thing I asking,
but I was wondering if it would in any way be possible, to make some
scripting magic, if some project drops the markup but still has the
same strings, so we don't have to update those manually?

Regards Kenneth

>
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
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