Re: [ddccontrol-devel] Re: [ddccontrol-users] Icon needed

[Nicolas B. <ni...@bo...>]

Hi Christian,

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:08 +0200, Christian Schilling wrote:
> hi nicolas,
> 
[snip]
> > Ok. Please also test what happens if the icon is not installed on the
> > system, it should not display a message box or something like that.
> 
> i think most user will have it, as it is part of gnome. but in case it's
> not on the system there is no error message, but an other icon is shown
> instead (red cross on "paper")

Ok fine.

> > > the integration of intltool also changes the way POTFILES.in is
> > > maintained. the "intltool-update -m" command scans the sources and
> > > creates a "missing" file containing all sources not mentioned in
> > > POTFILES.in
> > 
> > Great! .-) I thought that my small trick was not the correct way of
> > doing this .-) Thanks!
> 
> intltool can also handle updating of the .po files themselves:
> intltool-update fr
> will get all marked strings and automaticly merge with existing
> french translations :-)

Ok, could be useful...

> > > while making this changes i noticed there are many autogenerated files
> > > in the CVS witch in my opinion should not be there. i'll leave this
> > > as-is but i'd like to know what you think about removing them.
> > 
> > I think things like configure, aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in could be
> > removed safely...
> > When I was the only one to develop, it was not a problem to have these
> > files, but now, they get regenerated each time you do a commit because
> > we don't have the same version of automake (1.9.6 for you and 1.9.7 for
> > me).
> > So just go on, delete the files you think should not be there (please
> > also update the .cvsignore files), and if there is a problem we can
> > always add some of them back later.
> 
> i removed a lot of files (and added them to .cvsignore) but all of them
> are generated during ./autogen.sh or a later script. you'll see the dir
> gets quite tidy when doing rm $(cat .cvsignore)

Yes that's fine. I'll also remove ABOUT-NLS (it is generated by
gettextize).

> while working on intltool interation i noticed you use the N_() macro
> quite extensivly to do nothing, is there any special reason for this?
> i ask because usually N_() is used for a different purpose: to mark
> static strings with cannot directly translated by a function all, but
> are later translated in place:
> 
> const char* foo = N_("whatever");
> .....
> printf(gettext(foo));
> 
> i added N_ to xgettext keywords (because intltool needs that), and know
> a lot of strings witch don't need translation are pulled into the .po
> files

Yes I misunderstood the use of the N_ keyword... I've learned that I
used it wrong for weeks, but I forgot to remove them. I'll work on this.

> ps.: do you have some kind of instant messaging? maybe this would be
> handy for minor questions/discussions ;-)

Ok, just tell me which one you use, I have ICQ/MSN/Skype accounts, tell
me what do you prefer (I have none running usually).

Best regards,

Nicolas