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Bug 162439 - Don't split sentence in gnomemeeting
Don't split sentence in gnomemeeting
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: ekiga
Classification: Applications
Component: general
GIT master
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Ekiga maintainers
Ekiga maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-29 10:21 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2005-06-16 18:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Attachments
proposed patch to remove the split of the sentences (3.46 KB, patch)
2005-06-15 20:54 UTC, Fabrice Alphonso
none Details | Review

Description Christian Rose 2004-12-29 10:21:24 UTC
#. Translators: the full sentence is Registration timeout of X minutes
#: src/pref_window.cpp:1006
msgid "Registration timeout of"

#: src/pref_window.cpp:1006
msgid "minutes"

Please don't split sentences like this. The comment may be helpful up to a
certain point, and that is when the sentence split makes it impossible to
combine translated sentence fragments into a meaningful translation. Then, good
comment or not, I still cannot produce a translation that will be meaningful to
the end user. This is all described in
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#split-sentences.

A much, much better approach is to mark a single sentence in its entirety for
translation:

msgid "Registration timeout (in minutes)"
Comment 1 Fabrice Alphonso 2005-06-15 20:54:29 UTC
Created attachment 47832 [details] [review]
proposed patch to remove the split of the sentences

Tried to remove all splitted sentences in the prefs. Didnt touch however the
following :
#. Translators: the full sentence is Automatically adjust jitter buffer
#. between X and Y ms
#: src/pref_window.cpp:1254
msgid "Automatically adjust _jitter buffer between"
msgstr "Ajuster automatiquement le délai de _bufférisation entre"

#: src/pref_window.cpp:1254
msgid "and"
msgstr "et"

#: src/pref_window.cpp:1254
msgid "ms"
msgstr "ms"
Comment 2 Damien Sandras 2005-06-16 18:09:21 UTC
Fixed, thanks Fabrice!
(OPAL branch)