[Giggle] Latest file naming changes broke intltool

Sven Herzberg sven at imendio.com
Sun Feb 10 13:02:28 CET 2008


Hi,

Am Samstag, den 09.02.2008, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Mikael Hallendal:
> Łukasz Jernaś skrev:
> > The latest changes in the file naming scheme broke POTFILES, patch
> > attached.
> 
> Thanks a lot, committed as 932fb0829b5fb4aafe87d3bf4ec6bd5fa3afe91d.
> 
> > BTW I think we shouldn't keep translatable strings in something called
> > "libgiggle", AFAIK libs shouldn't be translatable at all (or I
> > misunderstood some variables in giggle-author.c)
> 
> Libgiggle is sort of work in progress and I simply made the split in 
> order to take one step in the right direction. In general I agree since 
> applications can't depend on the library to be translated and shouldn't 
> show strings directly from the library to the user.

I totally disagree here. Libraries should contain user visible strings,
because the strings don't have to be replicated in each and every
application again (just think of the benefit of stock items in GTK+).

Regards,
  Sven
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