Re: [Gaim-i18n] Re: Bad language in Gaim

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

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> 1) What means "you can see the butterflies mating" in src/gtkaccount.c:12=
97?
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>   Answer:=20

One of two things, both intended as humourus:
A)your network is really slow and you have nothing better to do than
look at butterflies.
B)You are looking really closely at something that shouldn't matter
:-)

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> 2) Why is Syd Logan a "lazy bum" in AUTHORS and in src/gtkdialogs.c:100?
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>   Answer:=20

Pointing out what Syd did and why he's there isn't easy.  But not for
the same reason that pointing out what Eric did isn't easy. Eric is
hard because he did almost litterally everythign.  Syd I'm pretty
sure did the prefs dialog, but beyond that...  Oh, and then he went
to AOL to work on winaim.  He deserves some grief for that :-P

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> 3) What is a "TOC host" in src/protocols/toc/toc.c?
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>   Answer:=20

TOC is an acronym.  I don't know what it means, it doesn't much
matter.  A user needs to see "TOC" so that they know what I'm talking
about if I ask them if they are using TOC.  It is in that sense a
proper name.  a "host" in computing software is going to be a server.

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> 4) What does "SSL Handshake Failed" in src/protocols/irc/irc.c:432 and=20
> src/protocols/jabber/jabber.c:451 mean?
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>   Answer:=20

SSL is arcane, or at least, I know next to nothing about it.  (note,
I'm not reading the source as I do this but then I'm not a normal
test taker here either).  But a handshake is part of a greeting, part
of two people meeting.  And it failed.  And its an error message.  So
the ssl setup failed, didn't work.

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> 5) What is a "Channel HMAC" in src/protocols/silc/chat.c?
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>   Answer:=20

Good question.  HMAC is a silc intneral.  I wonder why it needs to be
translated at all.

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> 6) What does ""You feel a disturbance in the force..." in plugins/psychic=
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> means?

I could go to litterally any child above, say, 10, here in the US and
they would recognize it as Star Wars.  They probly wouldn't recall
its exact context though, as it is from the original Star Wars,
episode 4.  Either way, the idea here is that something has happened
that you can't see, but it happening lets you know that someone is
around.  I'm not opposed to putting notes in the source about this,
but it does seem really silly to do so.  Seriously, Granted we have
en_GB and so on, the en_US users who will find themselves seeing the
untranslated version will understand and be amused at this one. =20

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> 7) Why Ethan calls the psychic plugin a stalker plugin?
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>   "If we're going to support crappy stalker-enablement plugins, we should=
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>   at least make an effort to ensure that they don't require C99."
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>   (from  svn log plugins/psychic.c)
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>   Answer:=20

A number of our users are quite upset over the loss of the
"conversation closed" messages from MSN.  Such users have been
obsessing over what it means when the other person closed that
conversation.  Does the person hate them?  are they being ignored?

Even more users obsess over the privacy stuff.  Otherwise sane people
worry that someone will think you hate them if you take them off your
buddy list (you can tell on msn and jabber), or if they find out you
blocked them (aim).  I've even seen people change screennames because
its somehow better to have forgotten to tell someone the new SN than
to block them.  Its crazy.  It is senseless.  It is very juvenile
high school behavior.  And its something Ethan has been summerizing
as "stalker" behavior for a while now.

The psychic mode plugin detects that someone is _about_ to send you a
message.  more technically, it catches the typing notification being
sent as they type the first message, before you have (short of the
plugin) seen anything to indicate their attention.  It isn't quite
the same as the stalker behaviors above.  it doesn't give you quite
the same information as (for example) the msn "conversation closed"
messages did.  But I can see where he'd lump it in.

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luke

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