Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 19:38 +0200 schrieb Ignacio Casal Quinteiro: > O Sáb, 09-08-2008 ás 14:00 -0300, Leonardo F. Fontenelle escribiu: > > Em Sex, 2008-08-08 às 21:30 +0200, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro escreveu: > > > Hi, > > > > > > gtranslator right now is using a kbabel like style for plurals based > > > on tabs. > > > So I have: msgid with 2 tabs (Singular|Plural) > > > and msgstr with N tabs (Singular|Plural 1 ...) > > > > > > I want to add that when you are in a message with plurals and you are > > > in the > > > singular tab of msgstr and you press next message, I want to do that > > > gtranslator > > > switch to the Plural 1 tab, if you press again Pural 2 ... > > > Another thing that I want to do is that if you are in Plural X on > > > msgstr gtranslator > > > switches automatically to the Plural 1 of msgid and if I come back to > > > Singular of > > > msgstr switch automatically to Singular of msgid. > > > > > > As I only know about languages with 2 plurals here is the question: > > > > > > Can I do this? I mean in Spanish/Galician if you in Plural 1 you want > > > to see the Plural > > > tab of msgid but is this user case possible in other languages? > > > > > > > This would work for Portuguese, too (big surprise :) ) but probably not > > for languages with n!=2. > > > > Honestly I don't like tabs for msgid plurals. There will be always two > > of them, so we'd rather display both the singular and the plural msgid > > "in parallel". That should be much faster to translate, because of the > > diminished browsing. Even better, there will be diminished _mouse_ > > browsing, because it's hard to navigate with the keyboard through 3 sets > > of tabs (msgid, msgstr, catalogs). Original messages with plural forms > > are typically short, so msgid[0] and msgid[1] could share the vertical > > dimension of the msgid area of the GUI. > Could you please try to make a mockup about how you want the interface?
Why don't you just use a table? Original: +--------+---------+ | n = 1 | second | +--------+---------+ | n =! 1 | seconds | +--------+---------+ That would properly scale (even visually) to any number of plural forms. You'd have to manage this as a dynamic user interface interally, but what counts is what the user sees, not how it has to be implemented. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
