[Xfce-i18n] Panel contents translations

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Tue Mar 8 11:13:22 CET 2005


Hi

I'm really not in favor of putting all translation in a single huge po
file, if that's what you mean.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:02 +0900, Daichi Kawahata wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:03:42 +0100
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
> > Hello translators/developers,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > In general, this means that the panel installs only one contents.xml 
> > file now, not one per language, which makes handling easier for 
> > translators and developers.
> 
> Thanks a lot that's a great advance for both sides ;) In this time,
> I want to write a side note for developers, if we decide to use PO file
> in which all translations will be done, sometimes string conflicts will
> be occurred need to be separated in translation, so I'm glad developers/
> you will take care of string usage in their/your programs if possible
> of course or translator will report that.
> 
> In the following case, I want to have a different translation.
> 
>     #: panel/icons.c:75 config/contents.xml.in.h:14
>     msgid "Terminal"
> 
> Can you modify string more detailed for tooltip, like
> 
>     #: panel/icons.c:75
>     msgid "Terminal"
> 
>     # config/contents.xml.in.h:14
>     msgid "Run terminal"
> 
> so the translator can translate each strings differently?
> 
> Regards,





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