2009/11/26 D. Michael McIntyre <[email protected]>
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>
> > > Isn't this like shooting a fly with a cannon? Is it worth it at this
> > > point?
>
> OK, now that it's over, I can say that it definitely was. I made a lot more
> noise talking about the problem and thinking my way in circles to work
> around
> the problem (it turns out the "Play" shortcut that made my spine run cold
> is
> actually "Multimedia Play" and there was never any conflict there at all)
> than
> I did just fixing it correctly.
>
> The code was trivial, and the impact it had on the translation was minimal.
> I
> ran through all the changes very fast and got my translation back up to
> 100%
> in less than 20 minutes. Most of that time was spent either fixing
> mistakes
> where I had translated keyboard shortcuts by mistake the first time around,
> or
> redoing the I, II, III strings.
>
> It wasn't technically necessary to change the I, II, III strings, but I
> like
> things better with no accelerators, and at least there is only one new set
> to
> re-translate instead of three new sets.
>
> Incidentally, I'm looking at the German translation, and I see that it is
> broken, or at least according to the Qt docs it should be broken. Someone
> (presumably Thorsten) translated all the keyboard shortcuts. Maybe it
> works,
> but the Qt docs state that it should not, so I'm correcting that. I have
> tested with Spanish that if I put "Ctrl+Shift+X" in for the translation
> (just
> copying the original string, because I prefer to have something in every
> slot
> to make it clear I meant to mark that as finished) then at runtime Qt will
> show me "Ctrl+May"X" as is suitable for this language.
>
Great that you have started "translating" the shortcuts!
I have been thinking about recognizing the keyboard layout in use.
In that case the keyboard shortcuts would probably not be in the file
of translated strings. There may be a German keyboard user who has
English language settings.
--
Heikki
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