Re: About Gtranslator 2.0

["Pablo Sanxiao" <psanxiao gmail com>]

2008/12/27 Leonardo F. Fontenelle <leonardof gnome org>:
> Em Seg, 2008-12-22 às 17:59 +0100, Pablo Sanxiao escreveu:
>> Hi all, [...]
>>
>> Now gtranslator 2.0 is almost ready to be released. Next days I'm trying
>> to fix a couple of bugs and then make the release. I will keep you
>> up-to-date. We have to upload the new web page, I know, sorry for the
>> delay.
>>
>> [...]
>
> I just tested and translated Gtranslator almost-2.0.
>
> I'll fill some (minor) bug reports, but there are two suggestions that I
> believe we'd better discuss at the mailing list.
>
> The first suggestion is about the keyboard navigation:
>
> 1. I think Alt+Home and Alt+End could be used as shortcuts for the first
> and the last translation. They are probably not going to be used often,
> but AFAIK they don't interfere with anything, and they make a lot of
> sense when we consider Alt+Left and Alt+Right navigate to the previous
> and the next messages.
>
Yeah, I think that could be useful.

> 2. I'll probably translate one file at a time, but for people editing
> multiple messages catalogs, I couldn't find the correct shortcuts to
> navigate between tabs. I suggest Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp (with Shift
> as well for bonus points), and Alt+1, Alt+2 etc. should have their usual
> role in keyboard navigation between tabs. Yes, I know that colides with
> other shortcuts; that leads us to my favorite enhancement suggestion for
> this email:
>
The shortcuts seems to be a controversial topic. Many programs in
GNOME have tabs and they use different shortcuts for navigation among
them. For example, gedit use Ctrl+Alt+PgDown/Up, nautilus use just
Ctrl+Down/Up. I think that would have a consensus about that. I agree
with using Ctrl+PgDown/Up

> 3. I believe there's little benefit in sepparating untranslated and
> fuzzy messages when navigating. So, instead of having shortcuts for
> next/previous untranslated, next/previous fuzzy, and next/previous
> untranslated+fuzzy, I believe we should be good with simply
> next/previous untranslated+fuzzy; the shortcut could be Alt+PgDown and
> Alt+PgUp. That should cut down the number of commands the user has to
> learn, and we can optionally shrink the _Go menu as well.
>
I think that we could join fuzzy and untranslated,  it makes sense.
Another idea would be having a list of modified messages and go to
nex/last modified message as Baris suggested in this bug report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552720
What do you think about?

> So, keyboard navigation between messages would be done with Alt+(←|→|
> Home|End|Page_Down|Page_Up), and navigation between message catalogs
> would be done with Control+(Page_Down|Page_Up) (with Shift to move the
> tabs in the notebook). What do you think?
>
> --
> Leonardo Fontenelle
> http://leonardof.org
>
>

Regards,
-- 
Pablo Sanxiao
http://psanxiao.blogspot.com