Re: New proofing / consistency feature

[email protected] skreiv 12.02.2026 14:55:
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> Hi translators,
>
> Varun, a Season of KDE mentee, is working in this merge request here, 
> adding more functionality to Lokalize's editor tab 
> https://invent.kde.org/sdk/lokalize/-/merge_requests/286
>
> What are you thoughts about this new feature being implemented? Is the 
> KMessageWidget warning too distracting?

I would find it annoying. I have seen the feature in other (online) PO 
editors, and have *never* found it useful. There are tons of false 
positives (partly because my translations are usually much more 
consistent than the original English strings). Also note that a good 
implementation must take into language-specific rules. See the Translate 
Toolkit rules for some inspiration: 
https://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/translate-toolkit/en/latest/commands/pofilter_tests.html

I’m not *against* this feature, but it must be possible to easily 
disable it.

And I actually think the suggested KMessageWidget UI is OK. The 
(supposed) error is easy to notice, which is important.

But I would prefer that work would be done to use this UI for the 
Pology-based checks that *already exist* in Lokalize. In the current UI, 
it’s easy to miss the errors. An advantage of the Pology-based checks is 
that each translation team can easily add their own language-specific 
(and even file-specific and project-specific) rules, and the checks can 
be much more sophisticated.

Regarding the trailing space feature: I like this very much and would 
*not* want to see it moved to a KMessageWidget.


-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer