[openbeos] Re: Back to the basics.
- From: "Steve Vallee" <svallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:13:23 -0800
So there sould be a kind of localized log manager, so drivers don't need to
do the job in run-time ... But I'm not sure about the overall localizing a
"driver". I mean, my mother know how to browse on internet, but if the
Video Card driver start to cause problem she will NEVER look at the log file
to see what's wrong. She'll call me, and I don't mind if it's in english
(I'm a native french).
So yes it may be cool, but I don't see it as a priority, there's SO many
other thing more important than that in my opinion ...
- Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Back to the basics.
> > Are you nuts ?
> > Device drivers are not the place for fancy things like localisation,
> > there's already enough bugs that result in system corruption to avoid
> > adding
> > ones =)
> > Yes windows has everything translated even in the driver, again
> > that's a reason
> > to do like Windows.
> > And even for driver names, maybe there could be a database or
> > something
> > (I mean a text file listing the translated names), so the user can
> > understand
> > what it's about, but anyway drivers shouldn't interact directly with
> > users.
>
> That's not what I mean. For instance erro messages returned by drivers
> that go to a log file or something like that should get localized. Even
> if for that the driver would have to be recompiled (so there would be
> no need for runtime localization).
>
> -Bruno
>
>
> --
> Cynic, n.:
> One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced
> eye.
>
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