[Geany-devel] Localization of plugin names in plugin manager

[Lex Trotman]

Hi,

If you can access the untranslated name why not sort on that and show
the translated name, then things won't move.

Cheers
Lex

2009/9/6 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 17:34:41 +0400, Eugene wrote:
>
>>В Sun, 6 Sep 2009 14:41:35 +0200
>>Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> пишет:
>>
>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:06:56 +0100, Nick wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:44:07 +0400
>>> >Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> > The other question is how to implement this with the
>>> >> > PLUGIN_SET_INFO macro so main_locale_init() is called correctly
>>> >> > (and only when necessary?) for all plugins.
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >> Function plugin_set_info() is called exactly once after a plugin
>>> >> is loaded. Function main_locale_init() should be called at least
>>> >> once (the less calls the better) after a plugin is loaded, as far
>>> >> as I understand what this call does (I had very little experience
>>> >> with gettext). So why not just put a single call into
>>> >> PLUGIN_SET_INFO?
>>> >>
>>> >> void plugin_set_info(PluginInfo* info) \
>>> >>     { \
>>> >>         main_locale_init(LOCALEDIR, GETTEXT_PACKAGE); \
>>> >
>>> >But does this work for Geany's core plugins? And it surely wouldn't
>>> >work for plugins with no translation setup (e.g. plugins just
>>> >starting to be developed).
>>> >
>>> >I don't know much about gettext code, what happens after a plugin is
>>> >unloaded? It wouldn't be good if the translations remained in
>>> >memory. Is there a function to call to 'unload' them when a plugin
>>> >is unloaded?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure all this is necessary.
>>> I spent quite some time on this issue when we started implementing
>>> the plugin manager dialog and this issue came up the first time. I
>>> didn't find an easy solution at the that time. Then I or we (don't
>>> remember exactly but we talked about it) decided that it is not such
>>> an important issue and just left it out. It's all about only the
>>> description and the author field of the plugins in the plugin manager
>>> dialog. I personally just don't care so much about these little
>>> information. And it all works once the plugin is loaded.
>>>
>>
>>Great, I won't care of it then :-) Thanks for explanation.
>>
>>Just to say, I discovered this issue when debugging modified addons
>>plugin. I wondered why it disappeared from the list after I activated
>>and deactivated it. After an hour of thinking and debugging I noticed
>>that its name was localized and it moved to the end of plugin list :-)
>
> Ok, in the case that the plugin name is that different in the
> translation, it might be weird. Not sure whether this should be
> considered a bug in the translation or in Geany (as we are talking
> about his).
> The easiest thing would be to argument that the plugin name shouldn't
> be translated as it is a name. On the hand, some plugin names are more
> like descriptions than real, plain names and so translating them makes
> sense. But this is just the easy was, not necessarily the correct
> one :).
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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