[haiku-development] Re: [haiku-i18n] Re: Localization of files and folders
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:46:41 +0100
Le 17 févr. 2011 à 15:32, Axel Dörfler a écrit :
> Jonas Sundström<jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> What if a single attribute is used. There is always one effective
>>> (primary) locale, always one primary language in use.
>> Except in multiuser. ($curse)
>>
>> This complicates things. It's still possible to use about the same
>> scheme, but for a set of active languages, e.g. provide apps and
>> folders with the attributes of the smallest possible set of languages
>> in use by the combined set of users.
>
> While I liked the original idea, it was already more complicated than
> necessary, and also missed the possibility of live updates (ie. when the user
> changes the language).
+1
> I would just have the key in "sys:trans" (or whatever it'll end up being
> called): Tracker can then look it up in either some shared place (for system
> resources), or even in the app catalogs for applications. Since you probably
> rarely have hundreds of translatable items in a folder, the speed penalty
> should be bearable.
It will also save disk space probably.
But please do not make this mandatory.
OSX translates foldernames in Finder and it is a real pain to have to remember
to "cd Download" instead of "cd Téléchargements".
François.
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