[Kbabel] Fwd: gettext and contexts

[Chusslove Illich]

>> [: Chusslove Illich :]
>> What's the big problem of simply loading and storing msgctxt in the
>> same way as anything else (eg. msgid_plural), and writing it back out
>> upon saving? It is anyway what has to be done at some point, and
>> currently it would just be invisible to the user (no feature changes).
>
> [: Nicolas Goutte :]
> The problem is how to show it to the user, without having tons of new
> code (which nobody seems to have the time to write. (I mean in KDE 3.5
> of course.)

Oh :) It's just that I was coming from the position of this context stuff 
being to new to get into the field use quickly, so I went only into the 
don't-choke direction... We'll use it in KDE 4.0 (hopefully :), and on 
Translation-i18n there was also an estimate of two years for this to sink 
into the Gnome camp, by a fellow translator from that tribe.

Anyway, thinking in this direction, 3.5 KBabel is feature frosen, but what 
exactly constitutes a feature freeze? I had this idea: currently, if the 
msgid_plural comes, the msgid pane is going to split into two tabs to show 
both; could this GUI easily be upgraded to show another tab if msgctxt is 
present? And all this comes into play only if msgctxt appears, so there is 
no real new feature to talk of :) I myself could probably make the msgctxt 
load where it should and write out back, but as I said, I'm blank with 
GUIs.

-- 
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
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