I wrote the DarkAudacity variant of Audacity, and deliberately chose to
use a name that did not disguise the origin of the code.
In the past we had rip-off artists selling Audacity as 'Luxuriosity' on
eBay.
We do not want to encourage that. We don't want to encourage the hiding
of the provenance of the code.
For DarkAudacity I spot the string 'Audacity' and replace it with
'DarkAudacity'. Paul may be producing a custom branch too, and I expect
he will use the same mechanism. There is no benefit/need for a template
for supporting other versions or branches of Audacity.
I doubt taking Audacity out of the strings would save enough translator
work to be worth it. There are possibly also languages which form
compounds, e.g. 'of Audacity', 'in Audacity', 'by Audacity'. A template
would make that harder to do. Paul is trying to reduce the extent to
which we have words out of context. I think the proposed template would
go in the other direction. So not a good idea for translation either.
--James.
On 1/17/2018 4:02 PM, scootergrisen wrote:
The name "Audacity" appear like 150 times in the translation.
Also there are a few strings with "DarkAudacity".
Would it not be better to use placeholders and then only have the
names "Audacity" and "DarkAudacity" appear in 1 string in the intire
translation, in theory at least.
That way it could be easier for others to use the code and change the
name of the program if they wanted to make a clone called
"Xaudioprogram".
That way when users use "Xaudioprogram" it does not say "Audacity"
everywhere.
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