[Koha-devel] New preferences editor

[Chris Cormack]

On 17 June 2010 22:27, Frederic Demians <frederic at tamil.fr> wrote:
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>> We mustn't forget that before we couldn't translate the systempreferences
>> at all, or we could only do it into one language you certainly couldn't have
>> it translated in more than one, from that respect its a huge improvement.
>
> You get a point. Before, sysprefs were translatable but only by updating
> .sql files. Now, and I agree it's a huge improvement, translation can be
> delegated to translator rather than to developers. My concern about
> difficulties for translators to get syntactic well-formed sentences can have
> a solution if syspref description are well chosen and avoid English
> idiotisms. We must get feedback from translators about issues they encounter
> and then define rules for syspref descriptions.
>
I think that's a great idea.

>> So before we dump on it too much, lets remember that. Lets also remember
>> that Jesse did it, while others talked about it, someone went and wrote some
>> code, lets do more of that and less of denigrating others work.
>
> It wasn't my intent and so I apologize if it was perceived this way.

It was probably an overreaction on my part and I apologise also.
>
> I add a page in the wiki to go ahead in the right direction for developers
> and translators:
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>  http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_Preferences
>
> Native English speakers are invited to fix my misspelling and gallicisms.

Fabulous, looking now.

Chris