Re: Repetitive strings in many modules

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

Den 17-09-2012 10:22, Alexandre Franke skrev:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com> wrote:
> > This is actually an effect of
> > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PortToGMenu goal. The new menus
> > don't use stock GTK+ entries for some reason.
>
> Shouldn't we open a bug for that? Or maybe that's already been filed?

I think the main point of the original post got lost a bit along the way.

We already have a collection of stock menu (including strings) and 
menubar items in GTK+ to prevent introducing (and translating) these 
~100[1] strings again and again, so the question is, why is it not being 
used. I can see a few different options here.

1) Developers don't like using them, because it puts a part of their 
program out of their control or something like that (unlikely I would 
say as GNOME is already built up around a set of shared libs).
SOLUTION: Not much we can do about that unless the use of them made a 
priority by including them in a GNOME style guide or made a gnome goal 
or something like that.

2) Developers aren't aware of them or forget about them in the heat of 
writing brilliant code.
SOLUTION: In that case we (translators) should then be making bugs for 
each module individually.

3) Developers forgot about them in the transition to GMenu. Unlikely I 
would say, that if they already used them that they wouldn't use them 
again if it was possible.
SOLUTION: In any case the solution is the same as above

3) A bug in GMenu (or elsewhere) that prevents the use of them.
SOLUTION: So to answer Piotr, yes, I think we should definitely file a 
bug about it. Then we just need to make sure that GMenu is the right 
place to file it.

4) Some technically unsolvable issue with GMenu that prevents using them.
"SOLUTION": Moping :(

So if there anyone here that can shed some light on which one of them is 
the right explanation?

Regards Kenneth

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-Stock-Items.html