Bug 63341

Created attachment 53670 [details]
Screenshot showing untranslated entry in "Show:" widget

*** Bug 63343 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Should be fixed in dateconfig-0.7.5-5.

That is, it should be fixed for the languages that I have translations for.  The
others I can't do anything about.

Will this change get pushed to the i18n server so that translators can fix their
translations? The current pot file for dateconfig in i18n.redhat.com CVS has a
last-modified date of "Thu Aug 30 2001".

At this point, the translators wouldn't have time to change it anyway.

Here's what happened.  Initially, we thought that gnome-python2-canvas would be
ready in time, so I ported dateconfig to python2/gtk2/gnome-python2-canvas. 
However, pretty late in the cycle it was determined that gnome-python2-canvas
wouldn't be ready in time, so I basically had to revert to the dateconfig that
was shipped in 7.2 and backport the bugfeatures from the gtk2 tree.  Besides,
all the major langs will have the translations.

> At this point, the translators wouldn't have time to change it anyway.

Unless you're planning the final release within hours and then plan to
discontinue development, I'm not sure what the reason is behind this overly
pessimistic thinking. rhn-applet, rhn_register and up2date modules were pushed
to the i18n server fairly late and just a few days after that many non-core
languages hade complete translations of them. Not to say that this is an ideal
situation, but that you can be surprised at what some translators can manage.


> Besides, all the major langs will have the translations.

So the rest can be ignored and not even given the chance?

> Unless you're planning the final release within hours and then plan to
discontinue development, I'm not sure what the reason is behind this overly
pessimistic thinking.

> So the rest can be ignored and not even given the chance?

I'm not being negative and I'm not intentionally slighting other languages. 
When I said that there wasn't time to change it, that's what I meant.  Not being
harsh or anything, but there is _no_ more time.

Is there time now?
I still suspect there will be another release of dateconfig in the history of
mankind, whether it be as an update to the next Red Hat Linux release or in the
next Red Hat Linux release after that or even later, but the sooner translators
get to translate dateconfig, the better the situation will be when it's time to
release dateconfig the next time. That's my whole point.

Yes, there is time now.

However, these particular strings will not have to be translated in future
versions of dateconfig.  The timezone selector screen uses the same code that
anaconda does.  The next version of anaconda will use a Python version of the
gnome-map instead of the C one.  One difference is that the map is made a little
larger, therefore the need to zoom in on a part of the map is no longer
necessary.  Therefore, the "View" label and the section tags like "North
America" and "Pacific Rim" won't be on the screen anymore.

Ok, thanks for the information.

Ok.  I'm closing since the string in question is no longer in the interface.  I
just updated the pot file in CVS for the latest UI changes, so everything should
be marked for translations now unless I missed something.  If I have missed
something, please open a new bug report.  Thanks for your help.