Re: i18n -vs- strings

[Eckehard Berns <eb berns prima ruhr de>]

> Raster> button=gnome_gtk_button_new_standard("ok");
> 
> Raster> There is a list of standard strings for buttons (ok, cancel,
> Raster> retry, abort, help, etc....) and these map to text and/or
> Raster> pixmaps in buttons
> 
> That's fine with me.
> 
> Actually we should do both.  We don't want to provide a standard
> button title for all possible buttons any Gnome program might use.
> But it does make sense to provide them for the most common button
> titles.  There are probably less than 20 of these.
> 
> gnome-stock.[ch] already seem to partially address this.  Maybe they
> can be extended to do what you say.

I'm about to continue gnome-stock anyway. I could add a function
gnome_stock_button("blah") or something, which returns such a button.

Hmmm, is there a i18n problem with the placement of icons beside text? Or
is it okay to put the icon right beside the text in all countries?

Eckehard Berns