Fwd: Oversimplified string in kdevplatform.po

[Milian Wolff]

David Nolden, 08.02.2011:
> Unfortunately this cannot be changed, because the "makeLink" thing does
> more then generating a string. It also needs to know where the link is, so
> you cannot move it around in translations.

sounds like this must be reworked then, as it's most probably utterly failing 
for RTL languages right now.

> However, the navigation widget doesn't need to be "linguistically nice" at
> any price. Cannot you just do something like "Back: " or "Previous: "?
>
> Am 08.02.2011 14:00 schrieb "Milian Wolff" <mail at milianw.de>:
> 
> Burkhard Lück, 08.02.2011:
> > Hi Milian,
> > 
> > we got this request today on the translators list.
> 
> Hey Burkhard,
> 
> CCing the devel list as I'm at work right now. Lets see when I have time
> for it, but maybe someone else can take a look at it.
> 
> bye
> 
> > ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
> > 
> > Betreff: Oversimplified string in kdevplatform.po
> > Datum: Dienstag, 8. Februar 2011, 01:33:15
> > Von: Marek Laane <bald at smail.ee>
> > An: "KDE i18n-doc" <kde-i18n-doc at kde.org>
> > 
> > Kdevplatform.po has such string. "Back to ".
> > Looking at source code
> 
> (kdevplatform/language/duchain/navigation/abstractdeclarationnavigationcont
> 
> > ext.cpp), it appears there would be something after that, making it
> 
> "link":
> > if( m_previousContext ) {
> > 
> >     modifyHtml() += navigationHighlight(i18n("Back to "));
> >     makeLink( m_previousContext->name(), m_previousContext->name(),
> > 
> > NavigationAction(m_previousContext) );
> > 
> >     modifyHtml() += "<br>";
> > 
> > It may work in English or some else language but it's definitely
> > doesn't work in Estonian as we don't have prepositions (at least as a
> > rule) and in this case rather some "postposition" is needed. So could
> > someone change this string, e.g. to "Back to %1"?
> 
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