Re: Sylpheed-Claws support in Preferred Applications

[Luca Cavalli <loopback slackit org>]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:57 +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> On 3/6/06, Luca Cavalli <loopback slackit org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have just uploaded a patch[1] to close bug #332659[2]. This patch adds
> > support for Sylpheed to default applications capplet. The patch includes
> > a string marked as translatable (the application name). I know it is a
> > bit late :) but checking current .po files you can see that
> > Sylpheed-Claws (already in the list) is never translated, and the same
> > should be for Sylpheed. Do you give your approval to commit this patch
> > before Hard Code Freeze?
> > Please CC me since I"m not subscribed to this list. Thanks.
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Luca
> >
> > [1] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=60807&action=view
> > [2] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332659
> 
> I'm a bit puzzled, both to as why this is deemed important enough to
> break any freeze there is at the moment (Sylpheed is not part of the
> GNOME Desktop release is it?), and why you are asking translators
> about breaking hard code freeze (you should be asking the release
> team; please see http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Freezes ).

Hard Code Freeze is not yet in place (shouldn't it start at midnight
UTC?) and I understand Sylpheed is not part of GNOME project, but it is
a quite popular GTK based mail client.

> Furthermore, I'm mindboggingly confused about comment #5 in the bug
> report (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332659#c5):
> "...since the patch
> doesn't touch a single line of code..." WTF?
> 

This comment refers to the second attachment, already committed some
days ago. The patch didn't touch C source code, just one line in an XML
data file and didn't break any freeze.

Of course if hard code freeze is already started I stop here and wait
next development cycle for applying the patch.

> 
> Christian
> 

Luca