Disappointed: My feature was removed without noticing me

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Oct 8 09:44:02 UTC 2008


I wrote:
> Does "LXDE" really need to be translated? Can't we just use "LXDE" as the 
> category name?

Looking at it, that's exactly what XFCE already does, so why can't LXDE just do 
the same? A proper noun needs no translation.

> We could also easily write a script which takes the translations for "KDE
> desktop" (or "XFCE desktop"), does a s/KDE/LXDE/ and puts that as the
> translation of "LXDE desktop" (and refuses the translation with a warning 
> if "KDE" doesn't appear, just in case it has been transliterated).

This turns out not to make sense, as KDE's string is "KDE (K Desktop 
Environment)" and XFCE's string is just "XFCE".

        Kevin Kofler




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