[libreoffice-l10n] Strings still in English

2011-12-31 Thread Donald Rogers
Hi I am testing in LO beta2 on Mac, using the Esperanto modules. When I choose the (Equivalent of) the File menu, then Save as... I get the dialog box "Save" title untranslated with the field labels "Save as" and "Where" untranslated. Is this a known bug? The other strings, the ones in the inner

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Andras Timar
2011/12/31 Andras Timar : > > As for the Insert Rows/Columns modal dialog, it was a good catch that > needs to be fixed. But if it have been good enough for the last couple > of years, then I don't think we need to urgently fix it in 3.5 and > break the string freeze. Let's fix it in master. What d

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Andras Timar
2011/12/31 Martin Srebotnjak : > > I guess the conservatism of OOo team when designing UI with those UI spec > documents was a good thing and this should be in a way incorporated in the > LO development process, even if with a lower administration impact on > developers - but there should be some l

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Bauer
Quite. Even the little compounding we have leads to problems in highly inflected languages. Yes/No is another of those, which is unfortunately one that the OO team forgot, because a great many languages don't have a single word for yes and no and rely on the repetition of the verb. The only wa

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Martin Srebotnjak
Hi Donald et. al., 2011/12/29 Donald Rogers > > On the other hand, is this a mechanism for developers to save us lots of > work, retranslating the same strings over and over, e.g. OK, Cancel? > this is not a proper reason to compound strings this way. There are tons of Cancels and OKs in the st