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Bug 152301 - Strange gcalctool "Show about help" message
Strange gcalctool "Show about help" message
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-calculator
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Rich Burridge
Rich Burridge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-09-10 09:15 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description Christian Rose 2004-09-10 09:15:17 UTC 
#: gcalctool/gtk.c:196
msgid "Show about help"

This message appears to be very strange. What is shown about help? Or is it help
about the about dialog? Does it need any help? This message seriously puzzles me
as a translator, as each of these interpretations would need a different
translation, and each of these interpretations appears strange to begin with.

In any case, there's currently a GNOME string freeze on the gnome-2-8 branch.
Comment 1 Rich Burridge 2004-09-10 16:10:21 UTC 
This is the fifth field in the GtkActionEntry for the 
Help->About menu item. See:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/GtkActionGroup.html#GtkActionEntry

It's the tooltip for this action. What do you think should be put in there?
cc:'ing Breda to see if she has any input to this.
Comment 2 Rich Burridge 2004-09-26 16:05:59 UTC 
Unless either of you (Christian or Breda) can think of a better
alternative, I'm going to close this bug next week as WILLNOTFIX.
Please try to put your thinking heads on and see if there is something
we can do. Would pleacing a comment in the gcalctool source code at
this point help translators?
Comment 3 Christian Rose 2004-09-26 16:53:38 UTC 
Well, as far as I understand it from your description, this entry doesn't show
"about help" (whatever that means) but rather the about dialog.
So perhaps "Show the about dialog" would be the first off-hand improvement.
Comment 4 Rich Burridge 2004-09-27 15:52:42 UTC 
Changed as you suggested in CVS HEAD. I've updated the version
number in configure.in to 5.5.7 (but haven't created a new
tarball as we want to fix a few more things first). Thanks.
Comment 5 Breda McColgan 2004-09-30 14:31:08 UTC 
Sorry for the delay in replying, I've just returned from vacation.

I'd modify Christian's suggestion slightly, as follows:
"Show the About Gcalctool dialog"
Comment 6 Rich Burridge 2004-09-30 20:23:56 UTC 
Okay. thanks Breda. Change checked into CVS HEAD.
The version number in configure.in has been bumped
to v5.5.8.