Re: String freeze break request for gnome-software

[Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>]

2014-03-10 21:28 GMT+01:00 Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>:
> On 03/10/2014 07:17 PM, Piotr Drąg wrote:
> > 2014-03-10 19:09 GMT+01:00 Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>:
> > > I would like to add a few translatable time format strings to
> > > gnome-software to show the "Last checked: HH:MM" label in the updates page.
> > >
> > > Would be great to have this in 3.12.
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725165
> >
> > That's a lot of new strings. There is no way you could use
> > glib/gnome-desktop for this in 3.12?
>
> Sure, could easily drop "Two days ago" and the like, these are just the
> icing on the cake.
>
> The minimum plan to implement this for 3.12 would need 1 regular
> string: "Last checked: %s", and 3 time format strings:
>
>   "%R", "%l:%M %p", "%e %B %Y"
>
> Would it make sense to only mark "Last checked: %s" for translation and
> leave the time format strings untranslated? I am not sure how much value
> there is for translating the time format stuff anyway.

Translating time formats, although preferably through some library
like glib, is actually highly desirable.

> Does that sound better? Could leave it for 3.14 as well if it sounds
> like too much change in the last minute.

I like the idea of 4 new strings for 3.12 and making it better later
for 3.14, and that would get a +1 from me.

Best regards,

-- 
Piotr Drąg
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