Translation problems; possible solution

[David Hampton]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 06:28, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Thinking about it, we might be able to use the prefix_gettext() even for 
> glade strings: When a widget is loaded and initialized in glade (using 
> gettext()), we could afterwards change the labels "manually" from 
> gnucash again, this time using prefix_gettext(). I.e.
> 
>    GladeXML *xml = gnc_glade_xml_new ("register.glade",
> 			"Some Register Widget");
>    GtkWidget *dialog = glade_xml_get_widget (xml, "The widget window");
>    GtkWidget *some_label = glade_xml_get_widget (xml, "some_label");
>    gtk_label_set_text (GTK_LABEL (some_label), Q_("new file|New"));
>    gtk_widget_show_all (dialog);
> 
> This actually might work. It's a bit confusing for the developer that he 
> has one label inside the register.glade file but another one that is 
> actually displayed, but since the developers need to know a lot about 
> their GUI elements anyway I think they would very well be able to handle 
> that. And this could be handled in a graceful upgrade: If one developer 
> introduces such a prefix_gettext in some widget, the rest of the program 
> isn't affected at all. And for the translators this new kind of 
> translatable strings can be explained in lengthy comments right in that 
> source file.

This will produce unsupportable code.  I, as a developer, expect that
the strings put into a glade file are what will appear (translated) on
the screen when a user runs the program.  I do not expect to have to go
looking in a C source code file to double check and see if the glade
string has been overwritten by a C string.  Your time would be better
spent fixing glade/libglade to use prefix_gettext so that all projects
could benefit from the change, not just gnucash.

David

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