Re: Fix for truncated panel names in Settings

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

Hi,

I've seen this falling through the cracks in our team, so this is just
a reminder now that we're nearing string freeze: there are strings in
gnome-control-center that require a soft hyphen to break gracefully.
Those strings have a translator comment.

Unfortunately, I don't think any of the commonly used tools displays
anything special for the soft hyphen character, which explains why
those can easily go unnoticed. vim does display a space, so that's one
way to see them. gedit and the damned lies diff don't display
anything. It would be good to have some kind of marker, ideally
something that's in between characters and doesn't take the space of a
character. Ideas and information about that are welcome!

It would probably also be good if say a week before the release we
could run a (semi) automated check on all translations that checks if
strings that have a soft hyphen in the msgid also has (at least) one
in the msgstr.

More background about that in Bastien's original email below.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> If in your language, you've seen truncated Settings names, such as in
> this screenshot:
> https://bug647087.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=185464
>
> You can fix it now!
>
> In master, for GNOME 3.22, the names of all the panels now include soft
> hyphens, which will automatically break the line, and not clip the
> words anymore. The string change means that English with large text
> (which you can enable in the Universal Access panel) is now fixed, and
> it's a reminder that you should add those hyphens as well.
>
> For earlier versions of GNOME, including the current stable 3.20,
> translators!, you'll be on your own.
>
> I will be opening bugs for each one of the languages against which
> problems were reported, so that you are aware that this language's
> translation will need fixes.
>
> See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647087#c13 for more
> information.
>
> Hopefully, soon enough, we will have a new shell design which won't
> have this sort of problems:
> https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2016/01/13/a-settings-design-update/


-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director