> Hi all, > > I just studied the GtkItemFactory code... > > It seems we're doing _many_ useless translations in the menu system. > For example all calls to menus_set_sensitive() et.al. are using strings > which are marked with N_(). > > However it's totally sufficient to pass the untranslated (english) > text to _all_ item factory functions because GtkItemFactory uses > the translate function _only_ when creating the menu labels. > > These label are never touched after creation, as the menu paths are > stored separately and untranslated. > > I'm quite sure that I got the semantics of the item factory code > right. Could anyone verify this please? It could save us lots of > work and reduce the size of the po files drastically... > I think you are right that marking the strings for translation is not needed in a few places, but changing this will not significantly reduce the size of the po files since duplicate strings are only listed once in the gimp.pot file. BTW: I came to the conclusion that plug-ins should register their menu entries using the N_(...) macro, not the _(...) macro. This is now done inconsistently. As my setup still suffers from the problem that all plug-in menu paths are translated to "Datei", I can not really test if I'm correct here. What do you think? Salut, Sven
