Translation problems with planned transactions schedule

[Dmitry Pavlov]

If I get you right, you'd like to know what is the difference between using
this context (or disambiguation prefixes) and plural functions. The main
difference is dynamic UI updates. With plurals you need to update labels
around the inputs on every change of spinbox or combobox. Even if that
updates exists (now it seems to be a static label, that is set in .glade
file) plurals still have problems, because correct "Every" translation
depends on the frequency type.
If we use only context, then for almost every value in input translation
can fit well (exception can be singular form). But it would surely be more
correct then now.
So the ideal situation is a context to differentiate types + dynamic labels
to format correct plural forms. But I'm afraid it would take a lot of work
+ editing "controlling" code, not just glade xml. I'm ready to edit xml
file and provide a patch, but not ready to dig in c code to add dynamic
labels.

As for minimum Gtk version. I think it is 2.18, but not sure. That info i
found here (https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.37/glib-I18N.html#C-:CAPS,
see "since" section for functions).
Locally I test on ubuntu with the following installed package:
libgtk2.0-dev ver. 2.24.10-0ubuntu6. gettext version is 0.18.1.1-5ubuntu3
Pot file is generated well:
#: ../src/gnome-utils/gtkbuilder/gnc-frequency.glade.h:7
msgctxt "Daily"
msgid "Every"
msgstr ""

I tried to add this to ru.po. Translated, make && make install, works fine.


2014-04-13 19:07 GMT+04:00 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:

>
> On Apr 13, 2014, at 2:16 AM, Dmitry Pavlov <zeldigas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've found that to implement minimum solution, we can just add
> > context="..." to glade translated labels. like this
> > <property name="label" translatable="yes"
> context="Daily">Every</property>
> >
> > This utilizes context lookup feature in gettext, instead of
> disambiguation
> > prefixes, but it seems working just fine.
> >
> > does anyone mind about such change?
> >
>
> Sounds good, how does it compare with using the plurals function?
>
> Is there a mimimum Gtk version required?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>



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С уважением,
Дмитрий Павлов