Re: i18n and GNOME hackers

2005-06-10 Thread Danilo Šegan
Hi Federico, Last Wednesday at 21:02, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > It would be great if you could start a checklist in live.gnome.org of > particular APIs which are widely used and upon which people need to set > up things like gettext domains. I could certainly use this for the > "Gnome cert

Re: Difficult strings (was: Re[2]: i18n and GNOME hackers)

2005-06-09 Thread Yavor Doganov
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:30:31 +0800, Funda Wang wrote: > The real problem is that, the developers are creating words which are not > commonly used, such as spatial mode of Nautilus. Why it is called spatial > mode, rather than "creating seperated window for every folder"? IMHO, "spatial mode" is

Re: Difficult strings (was: Re[2]: i18n and GNOME hackers)

2005-06-09 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:30:31PM +0800, Funda Wang wrote: > Clytie> WAN cards: Wide Area Network cards, Funda, AFAIK. > Thanks. I was thing of it at first. But what is that? Are the LAN cards > really different from the WAN cards? I've never heard of such a device > named as "WAN cards", besides

Re: Difficult strings (was: Re[2]: i18n and GNOME hackers)

2005-06-09 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 09/06/2005, at 6:00 PM, Funda Wang wrote: Thanks. I was thing of it at first. But what is that? Are the LAN cards really different from the WAN cards? I've never heard of such a device named as "WAN cards", besides ADSL modem, Cable modem, ATM adaptor, etc. Some adaptors or modems get

Re: Difficult strings (was: Re[2]: i18n and GNOME hackers)

2005-06-09 Thread Funda Wang
Clytie> WAN cards: Wide Area Network cards, Funda, AFAIK. Thanks. I was thing of it at first. But what is that? Are the LAN cards really different from the WAN cards? I've never heard of such a device named as "WAN cards", besides ADSL modem, Cable modem, ATM adaptor, etc. The real problem is that

Difficult strings (was: Re[2]: i18n and GNOME hackers)

2005-06-08 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 09/06/2005, at 1:57 AM, Funda Wang wrote: BTW, Frederic, Mandriva specific tools are always hard to translate sometimes, because Mandriva are not using the most commonly used words. I haven't heard of something named "WAN cards", for example. But, Mandriva guys response quickly then no

Re: i18n and GNOME hackers

2005-06-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:52 +0200, Danilo Šegan wrote: > I support this initiative by Frederic, and let me add that apart from > misreferenced gettext domain names, it's not uncommon for programmers > to miss appropriate calls to set up translation when they switch to > GtkUIManager (from GtkItemF

Re[2]: i18n and GNOME hackers

2005-06-08 Thread Funda Wang
Frederic> There are probably other applications (I noticed Frederic> some at GUADEC on other people system) but I didn't had time to write Frederic> about them. The problem is that the maintainers are likely to fix the bugs marked as important at first, but not those easy-fix ones. As a translator

Re: i18n and GNOME hackers

2005-06-08 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 17:52 +0200, Danilo ¦egan a écrit : > Btw, Frederic, what were the untranslated applications you noticed? > I'm running 2.10 since it came out and I didn't notice any regressions > in the apps I regularly use. Regression were usually not application wide, but in part of

Re: i18n and GNOME hackers

2005-06-08 Thread Danilo Šegan
Today at 16:27, Frederic Crozat wrote: > So, if you are a non-english native speaker GNOME hacker (or if you are > fluent enough to use GNOME in another language than english), please use > it by default on your system and report bugs (when translations is there > but not displayed). And of course

i18n and GNOME hackers

2005-06-08 Thread Frederic Crozat
Hi everyone, as Mandriva cooker users has probably noticed, I recently updated Cooker to GNOME 2.10.1 (and all other versions from 2.10.x modules released until now) and I was a little troubled by i18n regressions I found in it compared to 2.8. Usually, strings were correctly translated in various