[Kbabel] About rough translations

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Ut 10. Jún 2003 08:11 Bernd Groh napísal:
> 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'?

No, it does not care about settings at all. I will make it to care about 
setting then. (You can change the settings for rough translation only anyway)

Stanislav