[Koha-devel] Trouble-maker alert: Names of System Prefs

[Chris Cormack]

On 2/22/08, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/21/08, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
> > > My suggestion is either a renaming of system prefs (with librarian or
> > > usability expert input) or a way to change the way these labels are
> > > displayed to the user.  Meaning the system can see 'reviewson' but I
> > > see 'CommentsOn'.
> >
> > Heck no to renaming the system prefs ... that will only work for the
> > language the usability expert speaks :) So we will end up with system
> > preference names that mean something to US librarians and nothing to the
> > rest of the world :-)
> >
> > But having another column in the database, displayname which is
> translatable
> > that is used to display to the user.
>
> I think there are compelling reasons to rename all the sysprefs, some of
> them
> are just plain illogical (like NoZebra, NoZebraIndexes) ... but I 100%
> agree
> that we need a way to translate them for display as well. Another
> column wouldn't
> cover it because it wouldn't be able to handle multiple translations
> ... I'd vote
> for exposing the syspref names to the template as a variable and wrapping
> the description in that format so it could be translated using our PO
> system.


If we are going to do that, then we should go the whole hog and do that with
the descriptions too.
No point having them in the database.

 Chris
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