[kde-linux] kmail - how to edit error messages?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday 22 April 2006 15:07, Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Samstag, 22. April 2006 14:37 schrieb alan c:
> > I am helping a friend who is not at all computer literate, to use
> > kmail. They are mostly finding it ok, although a little confusing
> > after having used another OS.
> >
> > However, being on a very small income, they still use dial up for
> > connection to the internet. A significant confusion has arisen about:
> >
> > Send Now
> > Send Later, and
> > Send queued messages.
> >
> > Particularly - if 'Send Now' is used, when the user is not on line
> > (that is dialled up and already connected), the error message does not
> > mention anything about the possibility of being on line or internet
> > connection. I would like to edit the relevant error message to include
> > a few extra words.
> >
> > Any pointers to this or other solution (still using kmail) would be
> > appreciated.
>
> you can edit the kmail source files and then recompile kmail.
> if using non-english language, you will also have to edit/change the .po
> files for that language. kbabel is great for this.
> but keep in mind, you will loose your changes when you update kmail to the
> next version.

Depending in the message it could be sufficient to change the translation 
file.
Even for English, nobody says they have to use the strings compiled into the 
executable :)

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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