RFC: i18n: drop KUIT tags in KDE Frameworks 5.0?

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 23 de març de 2012, a les 13:59:04, David Jarvie va escriure:
> On Thu, March 22, 2012 5:47 pm, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> >> [: David Jarvie :]
> >> I understand from your email that you are only proposing to remove KUIT
> >> semantic tags, not KUIT context markers. Can you confirm this?
> > 
> > I confirm. They are used much more than tags, and have no problems on
> > their own; they are simply useful whenever present. They would only have
> > no
> > functional effect any more (this means dropping /format modifier too).
> 
> The original intention of enabling consistent formatting of displayed text
> via semantic tags seems a very desirable one. Removing the tags seems to
> imply that KDE would abandon the aim of presenting a consistent interface
> for such items. If an inconsistent interface is generally considered
> acceptable, then I can live with it. But if we really want to try to make
> these interface elements consistent, we shouldn't drop the existing scheme
> without first considering what might replace it.
> 
> Removing the functional effects which context markers have, including the
> /format modifiers, might have a significant effect if this makes
> everything plain text rather than rich text, so at first sight I'm not too
> keen on this idea.

I agree with David here, the fact that people don't use them does not mean we 
should aim at using them. And people don't use them because most people 
probably doesn't know, this can be attributed to a lot of things, like for 
example us not having a proper "style guide" where you would write "Each time 
a filename appears in an user visible message write <filename>%1</filename>".

Other reason is developers not caring about consistency much, we could easily 
gather some non-hardcore developers to go other the various i18n messages of a 
given app and "fix" them.

Cheers,
  Albert