[Bug 289569] BIRTHDAYS: Display the name of the person who has birthday first

[Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289569





--- Comment #9 from Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf <pancho kriko org>  2012-01-05 10:56:41 ---
#8 means this is a general problem that needs a generic solution and can't be
solved on an individual i18n basis. Even in English it needs to be "Markus'
Birthday", not "Markus's Birthday".
Therefore the ticket should IMHO be reassigned to the component in order to
find a generic solution, which could mean either of:

1) extending the translation system to allow for per-locale-callbacks instead
of just translating strings with placeholders, so it would be possible to
translate to "Marias Geburtstag" resp. "Markus' Geburtstag" (in German), or
whatever the resp. language requires (I'm sure there are even more pitfalls in
other languages).

2) using something generic like "Marcus has birthday"

3) using something like "Marcus: 31st birthday" if year is given, otherwise
just "Markus: birthday" (in German: "Markus: 31. Geburtstag", otherwise
"Markus: Geburtstag")

4) using something like "Markus: 31" if year is given, otherwise just "Markus"


I'd tend to the 3rd solution as a quick fix /plus/ the 1st one in the longer
run.

Additionally a simpler and somewhat more intuitive icon might help identifying
that this is a birthday event. The current icon actually looks more like a
red&white car battery.

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