Re: [Bashburn-info] bbmenu is now modified

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Wednesday, Sep 10th 2008 at 02:54 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
=>"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
=>
=>> to operate the same way as bbconfmenu. Nick, I don't know what the
=>> problem was that you had previously described. I saw it so I  know
=>> you're not hallucinating, but when I made the change to bbmenu, the
=>> problem seemed to have been eliminated.
=>> 
=>> PLEASE let me know if you find any problems.
=>
=>Indeed, the earlier issue now seems fixed;  The advanced menu with no
=>help text is still apparent, though.  But...

I have just one word: Oops. It's fixed. :-)

=>In advanced menu, if you change something, 'revert changes' doesn't
=>work, and IF you use 'revert changes', 'apply defaults' then
=>doesn't work either.  NOT using 'revert changes', all other options
=>appear to work fine, though.  I haven't tested this on the main menu.

Also fixed. Thanks.

=>Also a cosmetic change.  Why have 'Configure BashBurn' and Advanced
=>bashBurn config.'?
=>
=>We know it is BashBurn... surely just 'Configuration' and Advanced
=>Configuartion' is required here?

Sure. 

As the changes to bb start to wind down, there are new text strings 
creeping in and old ones that might want to change. They should be handled 
in less of an ad hoc manner; If I change a string now, I'm afraid it'll 
just leave the other languages out of sync.

Which brings up a new topic... The way that we're handling the different 
language problems right now works but it feels somewhat unwieldy. We have 
strings in lang/English/somefile.lang and then we have copies of the file 
in lang/!English/somefile.lang . Some of the files are mostly translated. 
(Good job BTW.) Some languages are there in good shape, but if a string 
changes, I don't see a system for *knowing* that the other languages have 
to be followed up. Also, we have a lot of strings that are duplicated, and 
changing one instance begs the questions whether followup can be managed.

So here's the $64 question: Does anyone here have any experience with 
gettext/msgfmt/po files/pot files/ etc? Should we keep going the way we 
are? I ask this with no prior experience using pot files.

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