Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-10-01 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:22:54PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I just implemented and commited a new cdebconf command, SETTITLE. > This will set the debconf title from a template description, making it > possible to translate titles. [...] Back to this issue, translators have begun to

Re: Menu items consistency (was Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command)

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:38:16PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:30:49AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: > > tis 2003-09-30 klockan 07.44 skrev Denis Barbier: > > > Some menu items contain a verb, other are noun forms. Should all items > > > be consistent in English? > > >

Re: Menu items consistency (was Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command)

2003-09-30 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:30:49AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: > tis 2003-09-30 klockan 07.44 skrev Denis Barbier: > > Some menu items contain a verb, other are noun forms. Should all items > > be consistent in English? > > I think they should be consistent, and I think they should be verb > phr

Re: Menu items consistency (was Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command)

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Sjögren
tis 2003-09-30 klockan 07.44 skrev Denis Barbier: > Some menu items contain a verb, other are noun forms. Should all items > be consistent in English? I think they should be consistent, and I think they should be verb phrases, just like button texts in a GUI should be. Please file bugs (preferrab

Menu items consistency (was Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command)

2003-09-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency > > is bad for your health. I move that only main-menu should set titles. As > > we discussed in

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:13:37PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: [...] > > > Template: main-menu/anna > > > _Description: [TITLE] Load installer modules > > > > No. please do not use any specific markup like [TITLE], this was only > > an example on my side in order to find a way to put more informati

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:19:59AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency > > > is bad for your healt

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency > > is bad for your health. I move that only main-menu should set titles. As > > we discussed in

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency > is bad for your health. I move that only main-menu should set titles. As > we discussed in Oldenburg, having the titles consistent with the menu > items is an

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Sjögren
mån 2003-09-29 klockan 20.54 skrev Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Thorsten Sauter] > > just for make sure... > > this means no program should set the title directly? This should be done > > all the time by main-menu? > > The need to set the title will be greatly reduced, but I am not sure > if we should

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:49:09PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [...] > Is this the same comment format as used in the gettext handling in > KDE? > > Do all programs using gettext use the same method for passing > instructions to the translators? No, in fact these comments are introduced to d

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thorsten Sauter] > just for make sure... > this means no program should set the title directly? This should be done > all the time by main-menu? The need to set the title will be greatly reduced, but I am not sure if we should require all packages to remove their titles. > If so, I go ahead and

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-27 12:22]: | I just implemented and commited a new cdebconf command, SETTITLE. | This will set the debconf title from a template description, making it | possible to translate titles. | | The old TITLE command is depricated and should be removed a

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Denis Barbier] > Items will be gathered into a single menu, so their context is not > the current PO file, but the whole menu. For instance translation > teams may decide that each item must contain a verb, so they must > know which descriptions are in fact menu items. OK. > I do not understand

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-28 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Denis Barbier] > > translators must be told that these msgids in PO files are titles. > > Why? Items will be gathered into a single menu, so their context is not the current PO file, but the whole menu. For instance transla

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Denis Barbier] > translators must be told that these msgids in PO files are titles. Why? > A solution is to add a special tag, say > _Description: [TITLE] Choose language > and let anna remove it. > Or use po-debconf(7) comments, e.g. > _Description: Choose language[ TITLE] Does thi

Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-27 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:22:54PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I just implemented and commited a new cdebconf command, SETTITLE. > This will set the debconf title from a template description, making it > possible to translate titles. > > The old TITLE command is depricated and should be

Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command

2003-09-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I just implemented and commited a new cdebconf command, SETTITLE. This will set the debconf title from a template description, making it possible to translate titles. The old TITLE command is depricated and should be removed as soon as possible after the next upload. It will even be removed in a