Re: Qt UI expert needed for bug #53526

[John Donoghue]

On 03/30/2018 10:47 PM, address@hidden wrote:

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:47:10 -0700
From: Rik <address@hidden>
To: Octave-Maintainers <address@hidden>
Subject: Qt UI expert needed for bug #53526
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Could someone who understands Qt .ui definition files take a look at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53526

The issue is that translators are seeing strings like "20" marked for
translation.? Pure numbers don't require translation.

If I take a look at settings-dialog.ui:2713 I find the following:

<widget class="QLineEdit" name="varedit_columnWidth">
?<property name="text">
? <string>20</string>
?</property>
</widget>

Because the GUI is using, essentially, a 1-line text editor Qt believes
that it needs to mark the string for translation.? Is there a GUI widget
element just for entering numbers?? After all, columnWidth is not going to
be a string like "Hello World".? It needs to be a number.

--Rik

How about something like:

<string notr="true">20</string>

which I believe will tell it that the string is not translateable