Intended organization of KDE Frameworks

[David Jarvie]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 03:31:07 Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> On 6/26/11, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 June 2011, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> A Tuesday, June 07, 2011, Kevin Ottens va escriure:
> >> > On Tuesday 7 June 2011 01:26:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> > > A Tuesday, June 07, 2011, Kevin Ottens va escriure:
> >> > > > Well, obviously a Tier 1 framework would have to use tr()
> >> > > > instead of i18n() for its translation needs.
> >> > >
> >> > > Are we still going to use .po or you plan on us moving to Qt
> >> > > translation files?
> >> >
> >> > Well, I honestly don't know what awesome magic you used for
> >> > libsolid, so for me it's "the same recipe". Note that it'll happen
> >> > mostly for Tier 1 frameworks though.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately that is not possible. Right now Solid is translated
> >> using .po but that only works in KDE applications because you have a
> >> KGlobal+KLocale around that loads .mo files (compiled .po), hijacks
> >> Qt calls and maps them to the .mo contents. Without a
> >> KGlobal+KLocale around that will not work.
> >>
> >> This means that if you want Tier 1 frameworks to be translatable you
> >> need either to teach Qt to understand gettext files natively or to
> >> make Tier 1 frameworks use pure based Qt/Linguist solutions which
> >> does not fit either in what scripty is able to do neither in what
> >> our translators are used to.
> >
> > AFAICS, Tier 1 frameworks don't provide any UI. IMHO they shouldn't
> > provide any user visible texts either. Just like UI this should be
> > outsourced to Tier 2 or 3 if necessary at all.
> 
> Many classes that one may reasonably think that use no translations,
> like KPluginLoader, contain many user-visible strings. The class
> reports errors via an "errorString" that the host app may then display
> to the user.

Perhaps some of these classes could return error codes instead in order to qualify for Tier 1, and an additional Tier 2 class could provide the message texts which relate to the error codes.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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