On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Christian Dywan < [email protected]> wrote:
> Does this imply that the recommendation for .desktop files should also > change? If scopes are slow to load with .mo files, wouldn't the same > apply to .desktop files? Or maybe the question is what is "wrong" with > scopes that they can't be as efficient as .desktop files? > > Yes, this would apply to .desktop files as well (see the last point of the other "Internationalizing app metadata" e-mail I sent today), but I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this. Cheers, David. > On 2014-04-15 20:14, Alex Chiang wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > I think those parameters are fine. They don't seem like they will > > materially add to any disk space / bandwidth requirements. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:51 AM, David Planella > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, > >> > >> I guess this will depend on the scope, but to give an example we can > take > >> the click scope: > >> > >> - Scope code (translations shipped in .mo files): 15 messages > >> - Scope ini file (assuming we only want to translate the DisplayName > key in > >> the ini file): 1 message > >> > >> So in terms of space, the inline translations approach has the > disadvantage > >> of containing all translations in the ini file, whereas .mo files are > >> language-specific and we can choose which languages we want to install > by > >> default. That said, ini files would only contain 1 translatable string > (and > >> let's say 40 translated versions of that string). > >> > >> Let me know if this provides enough context. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> David. > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Alex Chiang <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:20 AM, David Planella > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> We think using this option (inline translations in the ini files vs > >>>> reading > >>>> the translations from .mo files) is the best solution in terms of > >>>> performance when reading the list of scopes, but we'd like to hear > other > >>>> comments/views too. > >>> What is the typical number of strings in a scope? > >>> > >>> My guess is fairly minimal, but would like to see some data. > >>> > >>> [The context of my question is to understand the disk size > >>> implications of inline translations...] > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >> > > >
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