KDE4 proposal: Paths in i18n strings

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Monday 03 July 2006 09:45, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> Alexander Petrov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Monday 03 July 2006 12:00 Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> >> http://kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?KDE4TODOs_PathsInI18n
> >> environment it should be converted using QDir::convertSeparators())
> >> (TODO:
> >
> > what about Mac?)
> >
> > Mac OS X uses '/' separators
>
> By mentioning Mac I knew someone will point out this. ;)
>
> I've seen ':' separators in 10.3, but yes, I would use this tradition.
> What's different on Mac? I'd say, most 'friedly' apps avoid to display the
> relative paths in favour of the top level directory (if the path is a dir)
> or in favioud of the filename only (if the path is pointing to a file).
> Thus I'd think about using this knowledge when rendering the final message
> string, but I am not sure.

Most Mac development literature from Apple says that if the application is one 
being used by the end user, the paths should be represented in 
the "volume:Path:To:File" format. The only time it should be output 
as /Path/To/File is in console applications. Mind you, this makes it a little 
inconsistent, but this is what most Mac users are accustomed to.
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