El Divendres, 23 de març de 2012, a les 20:12:53, Thomas Zander va escriure: > On Friday 23 March 2012 19.39.26 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > Removing the functional effects which context markers have, including > > > the > > > /format modifiers, might have a significant effect if this makes > > > everything plain text rather than rich text, so at first sight I'm not > > > too keen on this idea. > > > > I agree with David here, the fact that people don't use them does not mean > > we should aim at using them. And people don't use them because most > > people probably doesn't know, this can be attributed to a lot of things, > > like for example us not having a proper "style guide" where you would > > write "Each time a filename appears in an user visible message write > > <filename>%1</filename>". > > > > Other reason is developers not caring about consistency much, we could > > easily gather some non-hardcore developers to go other the various i18n > > messages of a given app and "fix" them. > > Looking at the numbers I'm not sure your optimism is warrented; this feature > has been around for many years and its documented on techbase yet its being > used in very very low numbers. (333 times in all of KDE for the filename > tag..) Sure, it may be ignorance. Frankly, I didn't know about this > feature. The fact that developers didn't know about this feature is just as > much education as that they never needed it and asked how to do it. > > I think its nice to be optimistic and think that we can get people to fix > their UIs and suddenly get people to care.
That's only because we are geeks and don't care if half the time a filename appears as '/home/tsdgeos/foo.txt' or "/home/tsdgeos/foo.txt" or BOLD/home/tsdgeos/foo.txtBOLD or whatever. In a polished environment this is important. IMHO this is something similar to i18n, needs someone that goes after people and nags them to fix it. > But can we be certain enough of succeeding now where we clearly failed > before that this is actually worth stopping the innovations that Chusslove > is working on? I did not understand that it was stopping any innovation, Chusslove can you clarify if you want to remove them for the sake of simpler code (which I don't say it's unimportant) or because they create problems with other features you are developing? > > Read those numbers again; its kinda depressing really; Yes, they are, but to be honest noone pushed for them, what you expected? Cheers, Albert > > > Only 5 out of > > > > 24 KUIT tags were used more than 100 times (<filename> being the most used > > with 333 appearances).
