Re: SystemPreferences Defaults, localization

[Fred Kiefer]

I looked at the keys in Defaults.plist and compared them with the
documentation in gui/Documentation/GuiUser/DefaultsSummary.gsdoc.

In most cases the SystemPreferences is more correct than the official
documentation :-)

There are a few cases where obsolete settings are used:
GSFileBrowserHideDotFiles
GSModifiersAreKeys
GSUseWMTaskBar


But you better cross check these yourself. I just used grep on the gui
and back code.

Fred


On 26.08.2013 23:52, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the past fortnight I worked on the "Defaults" module of
> SystemPreferences.
> 
> Defaults allow tuning many known and lesser-known GNUstep settings
> without resorting to the command line and remembering obscure strings.
> The nice part is that the settings are dynamically written in a plist
> and not hard-coded.
> 
> I tried to make it easier to localize: instead of "duplicating" the
> whole configuration file.
> 
> I thus split the configuration from a separate Localizable string file,
> this should allow easier translation of all the description! To make
> that I had to get proper bundle loading of the preferences (thanks Fred).
> 
> I ask for two things:
> 1) could some of the developers and users check if the settings are
> still valid? perhaps some of them are no longer used
> 2) after confirming the array, if there is anybody interested in
> attempting translations
> 
> Since strings are keyed by a key and not just the english string, the
> whole array needs to be translated.
> 
> Riccardo