[Gtranslator-devel] [Fwd: Impressions on gtranslator-1.0]

[Fatih Demir <kabalak gtranslator org>]

Maybe some people here share the opinion, too, and have got also other
suggestions for these points? /me tries to nbundle comments



-----Forwarded Message-----
From: epiotr use pl <epiotr use pl>
To: Ross Golder <ross golder org>, Fatih Demir <kabalak gtranslator org>
Subject: Impressions on gtranslator-1.0
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:03:06 +0200

Hi folks,

At first - many thanks for adding gettext plural support. It was what
prevented me from using gtranslator until now :o)

Unfortunately there some GUI inconveniences for plurals usage:
     1. Current gtranslator handling of plurals depends on global option
        in 'Preferences'. IMHO plurals handling should be rather
        associated with the translation project. If so - it will allow
        adding appropriate "Plural-Forms:" field to the header if
        missing (accordingly to specified language in 'Preferences'. The
        complete list of "Plural-Forms:" fields for different languages
        can be taken from gettext project)
     2. The way of editing plurals is rather not too handy (one has to
        close all dialogs which popup every time when plural form is
        selected) - try to browse them using keyboard :o( Maybe it would
        be a solution to display each plural as a separate item in the
        message list (in the left window) ? Or maybe for plurals it
        would be better to apply similar message list in the right
        window like the one in the left ?
     3. Is it possible to mark messages (in the left window) differently
        with e.g. different color or with a little icon ? It'll help to
        find out all plurals easily ...

Hope above makes any sense ;o)


Again - many thanks for your work with gtranslator
Piotr