Hi, Christian Rose <menthos@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hmm, would it be possible to make GIMP tips translatable in a po file in > the future? That would probably ease translation, since gettext has some > nice features: it's easy to compare the original message and the > translation, easy to spot messages that changed or new messages, and so > on. > The messages could be put in a header file, or an XML file of some sort > (if you use intltool/xml-i18n-tools). If it's too much to put in > gimp.pot, it could be a translation catalog of its own. > > What do you think? I'm all for it. I have already considered doing such a change in gimp HEAD. I'd favor a separate translation domain for the tips since we could avoid to bind to this domain until the tips dialog is actually shown. A header file with static strings should probably do the trick most easily or do you think an XML file would give any advantages? Salut, Sven
