Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:14 +0300, ext Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:56 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > Kimmo Hämäläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Wrong. It would depend on the context and language.
> >
> > Yes, it COULD, fer-crying-out-loudly. :) We have the data now to
> > figure out whether it actually DOES for the set of our supported
> > languages.
>
> 'For the set of our supported languages' -- quoting you -- 'that way
> lies madness'. You would need to do this verification every time you add
> a new language, or change the context a bit.
>
> > > And what happens when you add a new, more 'context-sensitive'
> > > language?
> >
> > We change the code. Simple. Providing unneeded context is bad in my
> > opinion, and the way we do it with the logical ids is excessivly ugly.
>
> You also need to retranslate and test all the supported languages for
> the new strings (some of that you could maybe automate). Changing the
> code is the easy part. Why not make the engineering English unique, and
> use it instead of the logical ids ("OK 1", "OK 2" ;)), hey, we do it
> with variable names in code already...
FWIW, here's my 2cents:
I don't use localised images simply because i find revolting what is the
commonly understood "right way" of translating english terms to italian
and therefore i wouldn't really be of any help.
Hence my contribution in that direction is nil.
Then enters the logical_ids: I get 8cm long strings on a button that is
designed to accept 6-8 characters (btw, that also would be affected by
certain localizations, but let's ignore it for the moment).
So even where i _could_ be of some help in providing feedback, I cannot
because i have no clue of what the logical id means.
And i am not going to read the UI specs just for that.
I suppose this applies to many others, here. So logical IDs semm to be a
nice way to hide away logical errors.
--
Cheers, Igor
Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland)
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