[rekonq] New String improvements

Paweł Prażak kojot350 at gmail.com
Sun May 3 08:21:51 CEST 2009


On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Panagiotis Papadopoulos <pano_90 at gmx.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I once again made some improvements to the strings in rekonq:
> Some are simple typo corrections (Javascript -> JavaScript) and others are
> string changes in order to "ensure compliance" with the KDE Human Interface
> Guidelines (for example items in Combo boxes have to be written in "Book
> Title Case").
>
> Another thing I changed is the description of rekonq:
>
> -      I18N_NOOP("KDE Browser Webkit Based");
> +    I18N_NOOP("Webkit Based Browser for KDE");
>
> The current desription sounds very weird to me, so I changed it to
> somnething more "not-so-weird-sounding" string ;-)


Yes this sounds better :)


>
> I also added some "TODO remarks" to strings that currently are pretty hard
> to translate, without knowing the context of the string. The problem is that
> the strings are "separated" although they actually together form one
> sentence an example:
>
>     QString introMessage = i18n("<qt>Enter username and password for ") +
>                            Qt::escape(reply->url().toString()) + i18n(" at
> ") + Qt::escape(reply->url().toString()) + "</qt>";
>
> so I added  a remark like the following to it:
>     //TODO: Please convert this string to i18n("<qt>Enter username and
> password for %1 at %2</qt>")
>
> I know that this is possible, but because I can't code at all, I can't do
> this myself.


Yes, this is important from translation POV (and code is easier to read)

>
> Also, I think it would be nice if this time I would get an answer to this
> mail:
> I already posted some of my improvements in my last "String improvement"
> email, but some of them were not applied, and I still don't know why, as I
> didn't get any reply.
>

You mean the mail from Apr 21?


Thanks
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