Re: [Dri-devel] New option type "enum"

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:05:57 -0700
Ian Romanick <id...@us...> wrote:

> Felix Kühling wrote:
> 
> > I believe this solution is very flexible and keeps the implementation
> > complexity small as the drivers don't need to parse symbolic values from
> > configuration files. Comments?
> 
> Yes.  This looks very good.  The only possible issue is in specifying 
> how "partial" internationalization works.  For example, what if all of 
> the enums are documented in English, but only some of them in German? 
> Should the English text be used in place of the missing German text, or 
> should it be left blank?  Probably not important to make a "final" 
> decision about this now, but it's something to think about.

This is just a matter of how clever you make the graphical configuration
tool. The way I just implemented it in driconf (not yet released)
doesn't consider partial internationalisation. IMHO, if someone
translates the description of an option he/she should translate all enum
descriptions as well.

------------    __\|/__    ___     ___       -------------------------
 Felix       ___\_e -_/___/ __\___/ __\_____   You can do anything,
   Kühling  (_____\Ä/____/ /_____/ /________)  just not everything
 fx...@gm...       \___/   \___/   U        at the same time.