I note that, for example, in metacity we have lines like this: #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1540 #, c-format msgid "No \"top\" attribute on element <%s>" msgstr ""
#: ../src/theme-parser.c:1547 #, c-format msgid "No \"bottom\" attribute on element <%s>" msgstr "" #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1554 #, c-format msgid "No \"left\" attribute on element <%s>" msgstr "" #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1561 #, c-format msgid "No \"right\" attribute on element <%s>" msgstr "" Now, "top", "bottom', etc. are keywords and so can't be changed. I could quite easily change this so that it said msgid "No \"%s\" attribute on element <%s>" thus eliminating three msgids. There are very many such cases, not only in metacity. So: 1) It would have saved trouble had the system been designed like this originally, wouldn't it? 2) If so, should we change existing lines so that they work this way, given that they will both cause existing translations to vanish but also reduce the msgid count in translation files? 3) If so, should we have some kind of GNOME Goal to identify and eliminate such lines? T _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
