[Koha-devel] hard coded stuff?

[Benedykt]

Hi all,
I am wondering whether this is good or not but in the directory of the includes there 
appeared a css file with hard coded path of
.koha {
	text-align:center;
	background-image:url("/intranet-tmpl/default/en/images/background-mem.gif");
	}


Now if the whole idea by introducing templates was to separate the code from the 
design then this behavior does not stick to the rules. A person who tries to maintain a 
given translation needs to visually inspect every aspect of code in order not to overlook 
those kind of changes. 

An example: a file in .default/en directory changes. The modification includes a 
language string and a path to a perl file ON THE SAME LINE OF CODE. Not all diff 
software packages will show both but rather the whole line will be highlighted as having 
been modified. For a translator that means visual inspection of the code. Translators 
are NOT programmers. They may overlook a lot of such little modifications.

I have voiced this over and over again that there is something wrong about the way 
koha chose to internationalize.

Before koha-1.2.3 all the language strings where in the perl scripts. Now they are found 
in the template files. I wonder whether there exists a method of still going back to a 
flavor of GETTEXT to take care of translations?

Benedict

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