[Kdenlive-devel] Translation issues

[Juan M]

Hi all,

while translating kdenlive for the new 0.7.1 release, I've noticed that
there are a lot of different strings with same meaning and use. Just minor
differences (upper-lowercase, punctuation marks, ...). These strings are
mainly causing the application to become, IMHO, "unclean" -different names
in different places for the same option- and also are making harder the
translation work -more strings = more work- [?].

I've commented this fact with JB and agree to have a look at the different
programs to detect these strings and clean them. But before doing that, I'd
like to comment two points to know your oppinion :

- To make this work easy, I'd like to commit a small change in Messages.sh.
This change will include in kdenlive.pot the program & line where each
string is used, so it will be easier to know where to change the strings
when necessary. Change is as follow:

===================================================================
--- Messages.sh    (revisión: 2859)
+++ Messages.sh    (copia de trabajo)
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 EXTRACTRC=`which extractrc`
-XGETTEXT="`which xgettext` --kde -ki18n --no-location -s "
+XGETTEXT="`which xgettext` --kde -ki18n -s "
 podir=`pwd`/po
 kdenlive_subdirs="src src/widgets renderer"
====================================================================

Is it OK to commit this change or does anybody have any concern ?

- What do you think about NOT include pure numbers in the translation
strings ? I mean, for example, do not translate strings such as "4/3",
"720x576", "48000", ... IMHO, it has no sense to translate although there's
any language which do not use arabic characters for them. Does anybody know
if this is the case ???

Thanks for your comments.

Best regards and happy new year for everybody.
JM
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdenlive/attachments/20081229/dfe6b724/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 328.png
Type: image/png
Size: 569 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdenlive/attachments/20081229/dfe6b724/attachment.png>