[Kbabel] Full Gettext support in KBabel

Nicolas Goutte nicolasg at snafu.de
Sat Oct 22 21:08:25 CEST 2005


On Saturday 22 October 2005 20:54, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > [: Stephan Kulow :]
> > We will change to standard gettext before 4.0 - if kbabel 3.5 has to be
> > changed for that, be it!
>
> This sounds like a licence for "change as needed" :)
>
> I've added upon Nicolas' patch, making msgctxt a normal member of the
> internal data: proper support in Catalog and CatalogItem, and proper
> import and export in Gettext filter (patch_internals.diff).
>
> I've tried to fool around with GUI, eg. make an extra tab in msgid pane,
> but it proved too much for me just by looking for analogies :) Instead,
> for debug purposes, I put msgctxt below the msgid in msgid pane, separated
> by a "Inserted by KBabel..." sort of line (patch_interface.diff). Perhaps
> it would still not be too hard to add extra GUI element for someone who
> actually knows what to do :)

I think that the internal part is right, especially that it protects the 
context from being corrupted by the user.

As for the GUI part, I don't know.

(Today I had thought about a similar idea, while keeping the Gettext context 
in the comment.)

Have a nice day!



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