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

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 05:07, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> 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."
> > [...]
> >
> > 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).

Thanks for explaining.  (Wouldn't the word "property" instead
of "label" have been better?)

> 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."

Yes, these are much better, much easier to understand.  XML and
markup and text are all clear, but, knowing nothing about GTK, I
have no idea what is meant with "label" -- but maybe it is not
needed.  Or a comment might help.

Benno

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