GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167209
Avoid putting padding spaces inside translateable gnome-applets stickynotes messages
Last modified: 2008-01-08 19:59:14 UTC
#: stickynotes/stickynotes.glade.h:2 msgid " Font C_olor:" #: stickynotes/stickynotes.glade.h:3 msgid " Font Co_lor:" #: stickynotes/stickynotes.glade.h:4 msgid " Note C_olor:" #: stickynotes/stickynotes.glade.h:5 msgid " Note _Color:" #: stickynotes/stickynotes.glade.h:6 msgid " _Font:" Please do *not* align text labels using spaces inside the labels. This is the year 2005 and not the 1970ies; there ought to be some support for alignment in the UI toolkit/UI builder itself. Doing manual padding and fiddling with padding spaces inside translateable messages is an awful hack that ruins a lot of good work that has been made in existing translations, and makes all translations have to be updated every time the padding needs to change. Furthermore, there's no way that the translator will know how much he or she needs to pad his or her messages, or if the padding can be left as-is. Padding does *never* belong inside translateable messages! Please note though that string freeze is upon us.
Oops, this one is my fault. I had meant to only use that as a temporary measure, and must have forgotten to change it over.
Created attachment 84875 [details] [review] Removes pad spaces from .glade file, replacing with GtkAlignments Created a patch that uses GtkAlignments to align the text labels, and removes the pad spaces from the labels. Affects two dialogs in the .glade file.
I took the liberty to commit this.