[haiku-development] Re: Coding Guidelines need update for localization

  • From: Paul Davey <plmdvy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:15:42 +1300

2010/11/19 Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Adrien Destugues "Adrien Destugues" <adestugu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
>> Moreover, the About System case is a bit particular, asit has
>> a lot of text, includes formatting in various styles and
>> hyperlinks, with an API that's not possible to use with
>> ReplaceFirst.
>>
>> I don't see how we can get this app done right.
>  ...
>
> I restate my opinion that AboutSystem should be replaced, at least
> partially, by a plain HTML document. We have two very capable browsers.
>
> There is of course merit and value in improving the APIs and the
> services available to our devs and translators, but there is no true
> value in wrapping the right hand side text of AboutSystem - which is
> essentially documentation! - in C++ code, just to have it presentable
> in a form and in a place where a subset of people expect to find this
> information.
>
> This document could live anywhere - I usually suggest the desktop -
> or even a link to a page on the Haiku website. Sharing this info
> on the website might be prudent anyway.
>
> /Jonas.

Or put the info from the right panel in an html document and put a
link to it in AboutSystem and have the app just be the system details.

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