Re: [bug-gettext] gnome3 example strings are puzzling

[Daiki Ueno]

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> In the gettext-examples POT file there are now these:
>
> msgid "Set label sensitive"
> msgid "Whether to set the label sensitive."
>
> These strings don't make sense to me.  They are of course
> mere examples, and, lacking any context or real application,
> they are somewhat harder to translate.  But even the strings
> in themselves sound weird to me.
>
> "Set label sensitive"?  There is a label that is called "sensitive"
> that has to be set?  Something like the label "fragile" on packages?
> Strange, because in most programs the word label refers to a name,
> an identifier, something to recognize something by.  Or is instead
> label-sensitive meant, meaning that the application becomes sensitive
> to labels?  But the second msgid seems to belie that.
>
> I am not alone in this confusion, because in the Spanish PO file
> the first string has been translated as "Make the label to be
> sensitive".  Whereas the Brazilian seems to say "Make the program
> to be sensitive to label".
>
> Could someone explain what is being meant?  Or find better,
> clearer example strings?

It was meant to affect the "sensitive" property of GtkWidget:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkWidget.html#GtkWidget--sensitive
If it is FALSE, the label will have some kind of "inactive" appearance
(and won't receive any input event).

Yes, I agree it is confusing.  Would it make sense to use other
properties, e.g. "use-markup", so the msgids will look like:

msgid "Use XML markup"
msgid "Whether to use XML markup in the text of the label."

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno