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

[Joshua Ferraro]

On 2/21/08, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
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>
> 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.
Absolutely, I 100% agree ...

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