[Kbabel] About rough translations

[Bernd Groh]

Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:

[snip]

>>I believe, that if you tick 'Case sensitive', even though you might
>>match if only one word is equal, it should still not match 'set' and
>>'Set', for example (assuming you disabled fuzzy matching). But it should
>>definitely match 'set' with 'Set' if 'Case sensitive' isn't ticked.
>>    
>>
>
>Let's ask in a different way: should a dictionary honour its settings for
>exact translation? Should it for fuzzy translation?
>
I don't know what it *should* do? I can say what I'd have expected 
though. If I allow fuzzy matches, then I don't really care about the 
settings. If I'd do exact match only (and/or allow translation of single 
words), then I'd have expected KBabel to respect the settings. Whether 
that's the right way to behave or not, I don't know, it's simply what I 
would have expected without much thought.

>fuzzy search/exact search = fuzzy translation is/is not allowed in rough 
>translation dialog.
>
>We have 4 cases here: 
>1) use settings, do exact search
>2) don't use settings, do exact search
>3) use settings, do fuzzy search
>4) don't use settings, do fuzzy search
>
>4) does not make too much sense. The cases 1) and 2) cause the problem.
>It boils down to the question: "What do a user expect?" 1) or 2). It seems 
>Bernd expects 1) to be the case. However, KBabel currently uses 1).
>
Yep, that's what I'd expect, not claiming my expectations would be the 
most general and should be applied in any case! :-) But if I use the 
PO-Compendium, I somehow need to respect the settings in there too. 
Which means I can have fuzzy match disabled in the rough translation 
dialog, but enabled in the PO-Compendium dialog. Which one should I use 
then? Does KBabel consider the settings in the PO-Compendium for the 
rough translations at all, i.e. 'Case sensitive'?

Cheers,
Bernd


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