Hi :)
Ok, so best left for a couple of months.

I have a feeling we might have managed to stay "on topic", or at least get
back to the original problem!  However that is so rare i can't quite
believe it!

@ Niklas, does that address the issue at all?

Regards from
Tom :)



On 15 December 2014 at 10:44, Sophie <gautier.sop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom, all,
> Le 14/12/2014 22:53, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > Hi :)
> > L10n lists are currently having a massive argument/discussion (discussion
> > is more accurate tbh) right now about the disruptive effect of minor
> > changes.
>
> The problem is minor changes, like capital letters in menu entries, that
> concerns only en_US version but because this version is the source for
> all the localization, this is also visible in localized versions where
> it could be considered as wasted time for localizers.
> >
> > I'm not sure but i suspect that getting such a UI change within the next
> > couple of days might play out ok and catch the translators before they
> have
> > put too much time into too many strings and then finding they need to
> > repeat the work.
> >
> > If it's not likely to be just a couple of days then it'd probably be
> better
> > for them if this sort of change didn't happen for a few months - or
> > longer.  There might be a chance of them automating something like this
> but
> > it'd take ages to set something up and they haven't agreed on getting the
> > automation bit sorted.
>
> Shortcuts can't be automated as they are localized (Ctrl and Shift). And
> the problem with automation is that we need somebody to write the
> scripts ;) The same for accelerators, where we need to adapt them to
> translated words.
> Anyway we will have a discussion about it with developers and UX team,
> once we are out of the 4.4.0 rushes.
> Cheers
> Sophie
>
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