[Chandler-dev] Re: [Bug 6003] About box version number subtitution not i18n compliant

[Philippe Bossut]

Well, if Mimi is OK the wx UI and use of platform widgets for the About 
Box, I'm fine with it too.

Brian, you should log a bug and mark it as a task (use the Keyword 
field). Assign it to you and set the appropriate target milestone (0.7 
release should be fine I think, no need to rush that in alpha3 or even 
alpha4).

BTW, I'm done with the renaming so you can start looking into this 
whenever you want.

Cheers,
- Philippe

Brian Kirsch wrote:
> Hello,
> Mimi and I just had a conversation on IRC and decided that it would be 
> ok to move the about.html file from disk to Python.
>
> This will make it much easier to maintain from an i18n perspective as 
> our current translation framework can be leveraged.
>
> Otherwise a separate about.html file would have to be created for each 
> locale.
>
> --Brian
>
> Brian Kirsch -  Cosmo Developer / Chandler Internationalization Engineer
> Open Source Applications Foundation
> 543 Howard St. 5th Floor
> San Francisco, CA 94105
> http://www.osafoundation.org
>
>
>
> Philippe Bossut wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is that OK if I finish Bug 4680 (renaming SplashScreen.py to 
>> AboutBox.py) before you do that?
>>
>> Also on the About box, that is one element of "branding". We need to 
>> pounder that as well before moving to Python code in lieu of html.
>>
>> Also moving this to the public dev list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Philippe
>>
>> Brian Kirsch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mimi,
>>> In looking at the about dialog box. It is my recommendation that we 
>>> not have it as a static html file on disk.
>>>
>>> Doing so makes maintaining localizations more difficult and the 
>>> simple nature of what is displayed better
>>> lends itself to a WxPython dialog.
>>>
>>> If we have 10 translations we would have to 10 about.html files in 
>>> addition to the Chandler gettext localization po files.
>>>
>>> I don't think this makes sense long term unless the about dialog is 
>>> going to have a complex layout.
>>>
>>> Having external about.html files means we have to worry about 
>>> character encodings and errors in the html.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> -Brian
>>>
>>> Brian Kirsch -  Cosmo Developer / Chandler Internationalization 
>>> Engineer
>>> Open Source Applications Foundation
>>> 543 Howard St. 5th Floor
>>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>>> http://www.osafoundation.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bug-comment at osafoundation.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6003
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pbossut at osafoundation.org changed:
>>>>
>>>>           What    |Removed                     |Added
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>>>>   Attachment #2033|                            
>>>> |review?(bkirsch at osafoundatio
>>>>               Flag|                            |n.org)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------- Comment #1 from pbossut at osafoundation.org  2006-06-06 14:48 
>>>> PST -------
>>>> Created an attachment (id=2033)
>>>> --> 
>>>> (http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=2033&action=view)
>>>> Changes to Main.py and About.html
>>>>
>>>> Note that the new code requires about.html to be modified also 
>>>> (actually
>>>> simplified).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
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