Re: About string change in latest trasnsation drop: @MINIMIZEREXTENSIONPRODUCTNAME@

Jordi Serratosa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.localization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  El 22/09/2010 21:40, en/na Ivo Hinkelmann ha escrit:
> Hi,
>
> On 22.09.2010 21:17, Jordi Serratosa wrote:
>> Hi
>> I see the latest translation drop basically was changing file:
>> \sdext\source\minimizer\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\extension.po
>>
>> Particularly, %EXTENSIONNAME and "Oracle Presentation Minimizer" was
>> changed into:
>> @MINIMIZEREXTENSIONPRODUCTNAME@
>>
>> In previous version of the file, there was the following string:
>>
>> #:
>> SunPresentationMinimizer.xcu#.SunPresentationMinimizer.Strings.STR_SUN_OPTIMIZATION_WIZARD2.value.text 
>>
>>
>> msgctxt
>> "SunPresentationMinimizer.xcu#.SunPresentationMinimizer.Strings.STR_SUN_OPTIMIZATION_WIZARD2.value.text" 
>>
>>
>> msgid "Oracle Presentation Minimizer"
>> msgstr "Minimitzador de presentacions d'Oracle"
>
> a) it is a product name and should stay in English
> b) there should not be a hardcoded Oracle within the string
>
>>
>> which was now changed into:
>>
>> #:
>> SunPresentationMinimizer.xcu#.SunPresentationMinimizer.Strings.STR_SUN_OPTIMIZATION_WIZARD2.value.text 
>>
>>
>> msgid "@MINIMIZEREXTENSIONPRODUCTNAME@"
>> msgstr "@MINIMIZEREXTENSIONPRODUCTNAME@"
>>
>> Question is: What will @MINIMIZEREXTENSIONPRODUCTNAME@ resolve to?
>> If it is actually "Oracle Presentation Minimizer", is this string
>
> it will resolve to "<vendorname> Presentation Minimizer" e.g "Oracle 
> Presentation Minimizer". Thus the vendorname can change and the 
> product name will stay in English!
What's the sense in having <vendorname> appear in the string? Couldn't 
the name be "Presentation Minimizer" on its own?
Is it the same case with "@PRESENTEREXTENSIONPRODUCTNAME@"?

salut
jordi s
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