Re: GEP 7 - icons and thumbnails - gnome_icon_loader

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 
> > 	I'm really unclear about this; having spent a fair while optimising the
> > gnome-vfs mime parser; it seems a lot of time is spent parsing i18n
> > stuff which is all jammed into 1 file.
>  
> > 	Clearly - if we're aiming for global i18n coverage, we're looking at
> > upwards of 250 lines per DisplayName ;-) unlikely, but ...
> > gnome-vfs.keys has ~30 or so translations per key. It just seems a
> > non-ideal way for packaging, distribution and scalability to specify
> > things like this - especially when there is no pressing need for i18n
> > here I think.
> 
> This is a good point.  Although I do see a need for i18n, it would
> be wiser to split the logic and the display content into distinct
> elements.

Ideas on this?

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