gnucash maint: Add a missing gettext in plugin page owner tree

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Wed Jan 20 09:47:48 EST 2016


On Tuesday 12 January 2016 12:37:37 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Saturday 09 January 2016 06:24:01 Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> > As we are here, I am wondering why we get the different strings
> > #: ../src/gnome-utils/gnc-tree-view-owner.c:397
> > msgid "Owner Name"
> > msgstr ""
> > 
> > #: ../src/gnome-utils/gnc-tree-view-owner.c:408
> > msgid "Owner ID"
> > msgstr ""
> > which result in strange translations. The owner of an employee -
> > isn't that slavery? Yes, we have an entry about owner in the
> > glossary, but it is often not remembered.
> > 
> > We could either simply use "Name" and "Number" or "ID", but then we
> > have later "address name" and "phone number" as column labels.
> > Or we could use the same strings as in the New... dialogs.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Frank
> 
> I agree with you and John we should hide the "owner" generalization
> from the users. Best would be to reuse the strings that are used in
> other dialogs. That would give the best user experience IMO.
> 
This has now been taken care of via
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/0010458

I'm reusing existing strings so there should be no translation impact.

Geert


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