Re: gtk vs qt accelerators.

Hi all,

I'm also for forbididing accelerators. It looks like a clean and
fuss-free solution without a big loss in functionality. I tend to drop
acceletators in the translation, but I admit I haven't removed the old
ones. I should get down to it at some point.

Hubert

On 30/01/2015, Sini Ruohomaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd certainly prefer to not have to think about accelerators at all,
> because I don't have the context for collisions when I do those.
>
> I even left the accelerators out of the translators at some point, but
> gave up to the urge to tinker later and started putting them back again.
>
> The only argument I could see to having language-specific thought in
> accelerators is on what kinds of stuff is a 'logical' letter for things,
> but a lot of the time we don't really get to go with those either
> because of collisions.
>
> Br,
>
> --Sini
>
> On 01/30/2015 09:39 AM, Igx, The Dreaming Drummer... wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> To me the simplest solution would be to forbid the added accelerators -
>> no work for developers, none for most translators also (at least, those
>> that did not introduce such accelerators).
>>
>> I'll try and suppress all remaining accelerators I left in the French
>> translation.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Le 30/01/2015 08:22, Marko Lindqvist a écrit :
>>> There's a S2_5 bug report that seems to be related to translations,
>>> reported specifically against fr.po:
>>> http://gna.org/bugs/index.php?23008
>>>
>>> The problem is that gtk and qt use different syntax to mark
>>> accelerators. As long as the original texts have accelerators, there
>>> are client specific msgstrs differing by the accelerator. Strings that
>>> do not have accelerators in the original text, are identical between
>>> the clients and thus currently have only one msgstr. The problem is
>>> when the translation adds accelerator suitable for one client but not
>>> the other to such a string.
>>> At least in some cases accelerators are pointless in that the
>>> activities already have another key combination assigned.
>>> Would you translators prefer that such strings get qualified by the
>>> gui -> same string needs to be translated separately for both clients,
>>> or that it's forbidden to add accelerators to them?
>>>
>>>
>>>   - ML
>>>
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Hubert

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