Re: [Gramps-devel] menu entries

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2010/8/16 Bernard <bee...@gm...>

> The HIG guidelines speak about "a trailing ellipsis ("...")", however
> they are English and a trailing ellipsis in other languages isn't
> necessarily represented by three dots. It could be anything. Oriental
> languages probably don't even have three dots and a completely
> non-English speaking user has no idea what ... should mean.
>
> This is not the case for Slovenian users, but three dots following
> immediately after a word simply break the orthographic rules which a
> nicely localized application should respect. And on the other hand,
> Gnome desktop is largely translated with localized ellipsis (ie. " ...")
> and it just adds to the consistency if all the ellipsis are the same.
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>

Ok, if that is what firefox, ...  do in your language, we should try to do
it too.

You should search the code of gramps for the problems:

grep -r -F '...' * | grep .py:

You will see things like

plugins/view/geoview.py:             _("%(title)s...") % {'title':
_("Organize Bookmarks")},

This is ok for you, because it means you need to translate
"%(title)s..."
into
"%(title)s ..."

A problem is
self.__button = gtk.Button("%s..." % _("Style Editor"))
for this you should make a patch so that we change it to
self.__button = gtk.Button(_("%(ellipsize)s...") % _("Style Editor"))
then you can once translate
"%(ellipsize)s..." into "%(ellipsize)s ..."
and use that string in all other places you want to have ellipsize occur
correct for your language.
Then, for simplicity, in the above, you can replace "%(title)s..." by
"%(ellipsize)s..." (and change code that that variable title is now called
ellipsize) to save translator work

Once you edited all source files like that, you can make a patch (just a
diff between old and new), and we can commit that. This does not influence
current version translation, so you can do the change in the current version

Benny

>
> Bernard
>
> Dne 16.08.2010 (pon) ob 11:39 +0200 je Benny Malengier zapisal(a):
> >
> >
> > 2010/8/16 Bernard <bee...@gm...>
> >         Hello.
> >         I am wondering why on the menu entries I cant translate p.ex.
> >         "Descendant Report..." into "Poročilo o potomcih ..." (see
> >         space before
> >         dots).
> >         Are those menu entries generated dynamically? If yes, can we
> >         have "..."
> >         as translatable string, so I can translate it to " ...".
> >
> > There should not be a space. This comes from the Gnome HIG which we
> > follow:
> >
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.28/hig-book.html#menu-item-type-command
> >
> > So the ... is behind the text.
> >
> > Benny
> >
> >
> >         Regards,
> >         Bernard
> >
> >
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