GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 68366
Toolbar sort order icons need to be localized
Last modified: 2014-03-22 19:50:19 UTC
Tested with gnumeric 1.0.1 and LC_ALL=sv_SE. The toolbar sort order buttons in Gnumeric are currently showing "A-Z" and "Z-A". These button icons need to be localized, since the alphabet is different even in countries using a latin alphabet. For example, correctly localized Swedish buttons should show "A-Ö" and "Ö-A", since Ö is the last character in the Swedish alphabet. kenneth@gnu.org has done some work on localized sort order icons.
As of gnome2 the sort icons are no longer internal to gnumeric. We use the stock icons provided by gtk. There are 2 major icon issues that appear to have been puched back to 2.2. 1) Should icons like sort/bold/italic ... be internationalized ? 2) Howto handle dark themes and simple black icons. Requiring the theme to regenerate every such icon is a recipe for pain. I'd rather see these addressed in gtk+/gnome than gnumeric.
The i18n is addressed - supposed to be done via locale-specific gtkrc files. I believe Matthias just did add a description of which locale-specific gtkrc files are parsed on startup to the reference manual.
Created attachment 123173 [details] Gnumeric screenshot This is a screenshot of Gnumeric 1.8.2 running on GNOME 2.22. In gnome-icon-theme, the sort icons (view-sort-ascending and view-sort-descending) no longer contains letters, but bullets instead, gtk-sort-ascending in GTK+ still use the A-Z letter though, and I'll get on that. Regarding the bold, italic and underline icons, we currently use the letter A in different forms in those and I feel those are better than the initial letter of the translated words for bold, italic and underline.
Created attachment 123178 [details] sort order icons copied from gnome-icon-theme. Lapo said he was ok with licensing these under the lgpl.
(In reply to comment #4) > Created an attachment (id=123178) [edit] > sort order icons > > copied from gnome-icon-theme. Lapo said he was ok with licensing these under > the lgpl. Shouldn't the new icons keep the style of what we currently have? Notably the proposed graphics are very much faded out. Comparatively the current icons have stark contrast and the arrows actually have distinctive colours. Style aside, I'm personally not inuitively sure if I would recognize the proposed icons for their function, especially in the context of a whole lot of buttons merely displaying strokes and periods, like in the screenshot.
Christian: We didn't get any bug reports about them in gnome-icon-themes (that no one complains don't mean that your parachutes aren't working though). Both variants are done using the same style guidelines. I don't really get the current ones either :(
closing out old bugs