GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 325126
e-itip-control.glade strings need translator comments
Last modified: 2013-09-13 01:00:00 UTC
#: ../calendar/gui/e-itip-control.glade <property name="label" translatable="yes">date-start</property> <property name="label" translatable="yes">--to--</property> <property name="label" translatable="yes">date-end</property> <property name="format" translatable="yes">%P %%</property> need translator comments.
see bug 155294 on how to add comments to glade files. be aware that translators only get the strings and that it is not their task to look into the code. explain in the translator comment in which context these strings are used (and what they mean), so they can be translated correctly.
Created attachment 62096 [details] [review] patch:325126
hmm... i'm not quite sure if your proposed comments are helpful to the translators. :-/ "upto" is as unclear and vague as "to". what kind of sentence follows? "upto two hours"? "upto march 31st"? please explain in which context this string is used. you should find out where a user can see the string within the application, and explain this context to the translators by adding a helpful comment. same with "%P %%" - it's obviuos that it formats some text. start-date - start-date of what?
Created attachment 62663 [details] [review] correction of the bug given
Created attachment 62667 [details] [review] correction done
Created attachment 62852 [details] [review] patch:325126
comments="from event_commencement_date upto event_concluding_date which is equal to or later than the event_commencement_date" no. a translator does not care about event_commencement_date or event_concluding_date. a translator does not care about internal variable names. he will never see them. he just wants to translate "--to--" properly. so just tell that "to" does not mean "to a place", but "from a date **to** a date". means: tell the context. nothing more, nothing less. no internal variable names, no "equal or later". it does not matter at all.
i have fixed this now myself: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/calendar/gui/e-itip-control.glade?r1=1.13&r2=1.14 fix will be included in evo 2.7.4. closing.