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

[Nicole Engard]

Yippee :) I didn't upset people - keep the conversation going guys -
and then let's see some changes :) hehe

Nicole

On 2/21/08, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
> On 2/21/08, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > 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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