[Thunar-dev] 'copy of' strings

[Jari Rahkonen]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jari Rahkonen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would it not make sense to add the copy identifier to the end of the
>> filename (I mean something like 'filename (4th copy).ext') instead of
>> the beginning, so that duplicates of the same file would be listed
>> adjacent to each other? This would also let me translate these strings
>> into Finnish in a saner fashion, so you could say I have an ulterior
>> motive here.
>>
>> I could of course just translate them that way if it was possible to
>> modify the order of the variables in the translated messages. That's
>> easily done in Python using named variable identifiers in strings but I
>> don't know if C provides any simple (non-hackish) way to achieve this.
> 
> I asked for this on xfce-i18n some time ago, prior to implementing it 
> for Thunar. The current way provides some advantages (i.e. is easy and 
> reliable to detect whether the file for which a copy should be created 
> is already a copy by itself), and should be easy enough to handle for 
> most language (confirmed by the translators that replied to my initial 
> question).
> 
> Taking into account that one should seldomly create more than 2 copies 
> of the same file within the same directory, would it hurt the finnish 
> version if we stay with the current way?

You're right, this isn't important enough to waste time on if it makes
things more difficult for you. The translation will be a bit awkward but
  I can live with it. Thanks for the reply.

>> - Jari
> 
> Benedikt

- Jari