[Caminol10n] Viewing Localizable.strings files GUI changes

[Smokey Ardisson]

>On 25.6.2009, at 15:15, Marcello Testi wrote:

>>Strings in "Localizable.strings" files do show up in the UI, which 
>>is built upon the .nib files content.
>>There are certain situations where you can't see the strings in the 
>>nib, because they appear in UI elements provided by the OS or by 
>>other frameworks (like sheets for Javascript messages, error pages 
>>provided by Gecko), but usually those situations require little 
>>adjusting because context will adjust to fit content.

Right, many of the things in Localizable.strings and 
CertificateDialogs.strings are strings that we provide to OS code for 
sheets, menus, and so forth, and 99% of the time the OS sizing 
routines work properly (but when they don't, there's nothing we can 
do).

Other strings go into Camino's own nibs, either replacing placeholder 
text in the nib or replacing existing nib text when something changes 
dynamically.  Some of these places have some sort of dynamic sizing 
code (or truncating settings in the nib itself) behind them, while 
other places rely on you to resize the fields in the nib properly 
(e.g., the "time remaining" string in the Downloads window; see bug 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485146 ).

As Marcello's recent message to the list 
(http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/caminol10n/2009-June/002610.html) 
indicated, there is a need to better document the exceptions or 
special cases where translators need to pay extra attention.

At 3:54 PM +0200 on  6/25/09, Jan Jamsek wrote:

>OK, glad that it doesn't require dealing with code or something. :) 
>Will check that and then email the build to Luka for review. 
>Hopefully Camino 2.0 will also come in Slovenian. :)

Does this mean you already have a completed translation of some 
version of Camino?!

Smokey
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