[Evolution-hackers] Folders: Displayed/real names

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Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:45:15 +0800


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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 23:27 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:

> During the i18n fixes I've written for Evo during the last few hours
> I've seen that there are many locations where we need to display the
> translated name of the following folders:
> Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash (virtual), Junk (virtual). The
> problem is that the name of the camel folder associated with them is
> always untranslated for good reasons: the full_name/name struct members
> seem to represent the folder path on the storage to the folder. Now, in
> my opinion we've got two possibilities to resolve this issue:
> We can either add a char *localized_name to the struct, and let it be
> NULL for non-stock folders or do strcmp for all stock folders in many
> locations (folder properties, bar above the folder treeview etc.).
> To me, the matter seems to be more reasonable.
> Comments, suggestions?


Do you have a specific list of these problem areas?

We don't want to add a localised name field if it can be avoided, nor do
we want to gettext all names displayed.

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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 23:27 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">During the i18n fixes I've written for Evo during the last few hours</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've seen that there are many locations where we need to display the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">translated name of the following folders:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash (virtual), Junk (virtual). The</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">problem is that the name of the camel folder associated with them is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">always untranslated for good reasons: the full_name/name struct members</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">seem to represent the folder path on the storage to the folder. Now, in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">my opinion we've got two possibilities to resolve this issue:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">We can either add a char *localized_name to the struct, and let it be</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">NULL for non-stock folders or do strcmp for all stock folders in many</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">locations (folder properties, bar above the folder treeview etc.).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">To me, the matter seems to be more reasonable.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Comments, suggestions?</FONT>
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Do you have a specific list of these problem areas?<BR>
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We don't want to add a localised name field if it can be avoided, nor do we want to gettext all names displayed.<BR>
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