[Kstars-devel] typo in kstars

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Fri, 19 Dec 2014 04:59:43 +0200, Akarsh Simha  
<akarshsimha at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
>
>>> 1. I'm not sure if scripty can do this. Can it be some non-installable  
>>> text
>>> file like Cities.dat?
>
> I know very little about i18n/l10n, but how would it be if we could
> get a binary / python script that can be run off of Messages.sh, that
> essentially does SQLite queries and dumps the results? We might need
> to request sysadmin team for special permissions to run things on the
> server that runs scripty, though, and make sure that security cannot
> be compromised by developer mistakes. Typos can be corrected easily by
> using a program like sqlitebrowser.

Hi,

That would be good. The similar scheme has already been adopted in other  
applications (cf. [1]). Does this need some extra dependencies like  
python-sqlite?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Best regards,
Yuri

[1]  
https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/edu/rkward/repository/revisions/master/entry/Messages.sh
>
>> As we are in the Frameworks world, would it be possible to take a step  
>> back
>> and work on a common library of city names, maybe from some existing ISO
>> standard (ask John Layt maybe)?
>
>> I bet most of the names will be the same in KGeography. Maybe in Marble  
>> too...
>> and some of them also from timezone database.
>
> That would be wonderful! In fact, we have long pondered the idea of
> replacing our entire Location Picker with MarbleWidget or some sort of
> KPart that includes Marble. The issue has been that Marble does not
> have Time Zone data, apparently. Any efforts towards getting a common
> library to handle location and timezone data will be very helpful!
>
> Regards
> Akarsh