Re: [Gaim-i18n] Search comment for Jabber is not translatable

[Etan R. <de...@ed...>]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Vincent van Adrighem wrote:

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> Good point. The situation of hardcoded fields and custom messages is
> bogus anyway. We can remove/hide it safely and insert our own
> message, if needed. We could insert a "click here for server info"
> kind of widget. Perhaps that triangle flip open widget at the bottom
> of the window, with this text in it, or maybe a tooltip of
> somesort....I don't know, just thinking aloud. But a casual user
> should not need it anyway. The "use % for wildcard" text should stay
> though. Many will otherwise try to use
> * as a wildcard.

You can't just remove server messages, they do have meaning or they 
wouldn't be there. Hiding the message is doable, though not really 
optimal.

How exactly do you propose to keep part of server information? Keeping 
in mind that different servers have different instructions and different 
semantics. Some servers clearly use % as a wildcard, others might use * 
or & or anything else you can imagine.

As Nathan pointed out, servers need to send information, the information 
needs to come from the server, this isn't going to stop, it's only going 
to increase as more jabber servers exist and more features exist. And 
the information is going to vary between different servers and 
possibly even between different versions of the same server.

> Kind regards,
> Vincent van Adrighem

 	-Etan