[Kde-extra-gear] libksane release getting closer

Achim Bohnet ach at mpe.mpg.de
Wed Jan 16 00:19:33 CET 2008


On Wednesday, 16. January 2008, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dilluns 14 Gener 2008, Kåre Särs va escriure:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think libksane is featurewise quite close to a first release. I have some
> > things tho that I'm not sure of yet.
> >
> > 1) Most strings for the sane options come from libsane. What is the best
> > way to get translations for strings coming from non KDE libraries?
> 
> Is the libsane library translatable? If so, you could motivate KDE translators 
> to translate it, if not, if the messages are known beforehand you should 
> create a dummy.cpp file with
> I18N_NOOP("foo");
> I18N_NOOP("bar");
> and then call i18n() on the string returned by libsane.
> 
> If strings can not be translated in libsane nor they can not be known 
> beforehand there's nothing you can do and you should contact sane people to 
> get into the future and provide a way to translate their messages.

Ah, this reminds me:  Does cmake include the API major number into the
name of library translations?  As different lib<whatver>.so.<major> should
be installable in parallel, so should be lib<whatever>-<major>.po.

Achim
> 
> Albert
> 
> >
> > 2) With the current API it is not possible to get the DPI info. Would a
> > function call returning the current DPI be OK? (called in the slot of
> > imageReady(...) )
> >
> > /Kåre
> >
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