On May 19, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
From: "Bruno Busco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think that in order to keep things simple and maintaneable we
should avoid
that a label is overwritten in two different UiLabels files to
have a
different and more specific text.
If we do like this it will be an easy job to automatically check
for label
duplication.
+1000, I totally agree : simple is beautiful. We don't need
complexity at this level. Or someone has to explain me why...
A good example is the Asset Maintenance component - which reuses
screens from the Accounting component, but changes some terminology
so that it makes more sense to a maintenance person. In that case,
the UI labels used in the Accounting component screens are redefined
in Asset Maintenance.
This is an interesting use of label overriding, but I'm not sure I
like it... If the meaning of some text somewhere is different from the
meaning implied by the previously used label then my preference would
be to see a different label.
The labels are really meant for enabling translation and not so much
for overriding text. They can certainly be used that way, but if it
obfuscates meaning them over time it may make things more difficult to
understand and maintain.
That's just my thought though... either way I don't want to see us
paint ourselves into a corner with something like this.
-David
