GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 682374
Gtranslator doesn't show error messages
Last modified: 2019-02-27 15:16:48 UTC
If the original strings contains a variable like %s, but user translates it as %d, GT doesn't show any warning message. Also, if the linebreaks doesn't match in both original and translated strings, it doesn't warns about it. Some commit migth have break this feature, since it was working in some previous versions. Thanks!
Not displaying a warning is important (still there are dozens of QA tools that allow you to check that), but changing the priority and severity to its higher values is a bit too much isn't it? Let developers do its job and prioritize as they see fit maybe, at the end they will be the ones fixing it :) Still, I'm sure they will be happy to see patches coming fixing it, or investigating on which commit the warnings where no longer working ;)
This is the commit that broke the warning messages: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtranslator/commit/?id=bebb0f6fb9357890256f07fb45c1ebeba58a9b09 I don't know how to fix it, but I'm Ccing Garnacho, since he pushed this patch, so maybe he could help us. Also, I downgrade the priority of this bug.
We are mass-closing old gtranslator issues as the latest versions of gtranslator (3.30 or later) should fix most of the reported problems and as there is unfortunately no capacity to retest all of them separately. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-February/msg00059.html If the issue described in this report still happens in gtranslator version 3.30 or later, please file a new ticket under https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtranslator/issues/ - thanks for your understanding! We are sorry that your report was not handled / fixed after you reported it - many free and open source software projects receive more bug reports and feature requests than they have developers who have free time to work on them. If you would like to get involved and contribute on gtranslator code, please check https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers