Re: String freeze break for gnome-packagekit

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Hi!

Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>, Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:35:25
-0400:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM, William Jon McCann
> <william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a high visibility bug in gnome-packagekit that results in the
> > WM_CLASS being used as the application name.  A name like
> > "gpk-dbus-service" appears in the top bar of GNOME 3 when you try to
> > install software.  This makes things look pretty broken.  And is high
> > visibility since most people will want to install software at some
> > point.
> >
> > The bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645281
> >
> > There are other important string fixes in there as well so ensure that
> > the application name makes sense.
> >
> > I think it is really important to fix this for 3.0.  May we?
> 
> Also worth pointing out that the patches will reduce the overall
> number of translatable strings, since it consistently users 'Software
> Install' as the application name in all places, instead of several
> different names.

So AFAICS those patches referenced in the bug add only one highly visible
string ("Software Install"), since the other one seems to be already used
("Install selected software on the system").

OTOH, there are already 20 complete translations for gnome-packagekit, plus
there have been many string freeze breaks recently, so I guess I'll let
other i18n members decide if they consider this an important issue worth
fixing before the stable release.

Best,
Petr Kovar