Re: git-gui translators: gitgui-0.10.0 coming soon

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 15, 2008, 03:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20080315033110.GC8410@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803140936130.25570@ds9.cixit.se>

Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:

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> Quick sanity check, is "Apple" really supposed to be translated here:
> 
>   #: git-gui.sh:2092 lib/choose_repository.tcl:41
>   msgid "Apple"
>   msgstr ""
> 
> In git-gui.sh:
> 
>  .mbar add cascade -label [mc Apple] -menu .mbar.apple
> 
> Since the menu title is the Apple symbol, should it really have a
> translatable label?

Hmm, maybe not. What triggers that menu being attached to the menu bar as the Apple menu itself is I think being called .apple. But as you point out, there is little point in translating that string. It should only be used on a Mac, and on a Mac we really want that to be your true Apple menu, not a menu that happens to say "Apple" in your preferred language.

Actually on a Mac OS X system the "Apple" menu is now the application menu, so it will say either "Wish" or "Git Gui", depending on how you managed to start git-gui.

I'll remove the [mc] block on that.  We shouldn't translate it.

-- 
Shawn.