2009/1/5 Christian Rose <[email protected]>: > On 1/4/09, Kenneth Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> >> >> The GTK+ team decided for a short 2.16 cycle, so it can already be >> >> >> used for GNOME 2.26; this is great news and something many >> developers >> >> >> wanted, as there are already interesting features: >> > [...] >> >> also the ability to parse pango attributes on GtkLabel directly >> (allowing >> >> translatable strings without markup to have fancy pango sugar). >> > >> > Wohoo! This has been one of the most annoying issues for translators >> > for many years. And now we have a solution in sight, perhaps even for >> > GNOME 2.26! No more wasting time and resources on "translating" >> > markup... I'm starting to feel sentimental, and my eyes are almost >> > getting wet... A tremendously big thanks to everyone involved! >> > >> > >> >> Nice, I'm going to do my best to pump out some nice editing magic >> >> for the new GtkEntry features from Glade, and I'll see if I cant >> squeeze in >> >> some pango attribute support on other widgets than just label >> >> (I guess we can set attributes on entries too... not sure what else...) >> > >> > That would be awesome...! >> >> >> This is indeed great. I don't quite get what he is talking about with >> the "editing magic", so I don't know if it is the same thing I asking, >> but I was wondering if it would in any way be possible, to make some >> scripting magic, if some project drops the markup but still has the >> same strings, so we don't have to update those manually? > > Let's worry about our existing translations later, and do one step at a time. > > The first step, if and when the feature he is discussing would be > implemented, would be for us to start filing bugs against modules that > include glade markup, so that they actually start using those features > instead of including markup. Only after we would have convinced them > would we need to start worrying about removing the markup from our > translations as well... >
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