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Suggestions hide translator comments #2013

Open transl8bzimport opened 13 years ago

transl8bzimport commented 13 years ago

Version: 0.7.0

Originally posted by Chris Leonard:

The automatic suggestions from Virtaal that appear just under the msgstr input field obscure any translator comments that are present. This is a problem as there is apparently no way to dismiss the suggestions in order to view the translator comments before entering something in the msgstr field.

friedelwolff commented 13 years ago

The suggestions can be dismissed with Esc or F9 (the last one being advertised on the View menu).

This is a bit of a problem, although I'm not sure what the best solution will be. Since Virtaal doesn't yet provide a way to enter it, we can expect it to be slightly less of a problem than it would be otherwise. Of course, it is still an issue in any kind of situation where people collaborate, even with files coming from Pootle possibly having these comments.

We could maybe make the suggestions display lower down, below the translator comments. It doesn't feel optimal, but I can't think of something else, and it isn't all bad.

transl8bzimport commented 13 years ago

Originally posted by Chris Leonard:

The use case here is having a bridging language (e.g. Spanish) strings in translator comments for localizing an indigenous language (e.g. Quechua/Aymara, etc.). This can be accomplished with instrans from http://www.runasimipi.org/

A separate enhancement ticket will be filed suggesting that poswap offer this functionality (insert bridging lang into translator comments) as it is quite useful for indigenous langs, in particular, and anything that aids indigenous lang L10n is a huge win overall.

There is plenty of real-estate to the left and right of the msgid / msgstr boxes. If you want to get really fancy (not necessarily recommended), you'd put translator comments on the left in LTR langs and on the right in RTL langs so the eye flow remains the same from comment to msgstr box.