84851 - Move all component names to central place (brand.dtd etc.)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Mozilla, Netscape 6, Beonex Communicator and other derivates don't necessarily
agree on the component names (listed below).(For example, Netscape may want to
use "Mail" / "News" for Mailnews, but Mozilla and Beonex may want a more unique
name.

However, currently, they are "hardcoded" all other place in the locale files,
which makes it practically improssible to change them.

Subject of this bug: Each component name must appear at most 2 times (once in
.dtd, once in .properties) in the source.

Component names:
- Navigator
- Composer / Editor
- Mail and News
- Mail
- News
- Address Book
- ChatZilla

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

For now, assigning to myself.

If anybody decides to work on that, either file blocking bugs for components or
take this bug (if you want to do it "all at once").

There is already a bug about this for Mailnews.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Technically, this is not a problem: We do that for "Mozilla" already, using
entities (in DTDs), e.g. &brandShortName;. Similarily, we could have
&mailShortName; etc.

Comment 3

[Cormac F]

Adding meta keyword. Sorry for the spam!

Comment 4

[R.J. Keller]

I'm willing to implement this if nobody else is.

Comment 5

[R.J. Keller]

Moving this bug to my plate. Not sure why this is tracking. If anybody can 
think of a better component, feel free to change it (for QA purposes).

Comment 6

[R.J. Keller]

just to note:

"Composer" is at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/editor/ui/composer/locale/en-US/editor.dtd#25
"Address Book" is at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/addrbook/resources/locale/en-US/abMainWindow.dtd#22

Mail & Newsgroups doesn't seem to have a specific location. Is there any other
moz apps that need brand names in brand.dtd?

Comment 7

[R.J. Keller]

Attachment: Moves all components to brand.dtd

Comment 8

[R.J. Keller]

Comment on attachment 155530 [details] [diff] [review]
Moves all components to brand.dtd

Neil, can you review this?

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 155530 [details] [diff] [review]
Moves all components to brand.dtd

The IRC changes are no good because it's an extension. Also you'll need to talk
to mscott to see how this will affect Thunderbird. Are you intending to make
further changes, for instance there are only two Composer changes here,
although the name appears in several other files.

Comment 10

[R.J. Keller]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (From update of attachment 155530 [details] [diff] [review])
> The IRC changes are no good because it's an extension. Also you'll need to talk
> to mscott to see how this will affect Thunderbird. Are you intending to make
> further changes, for instance there are only two Composer changes here,
> although the name appears in several other files.
> 

what files? (other than the help docs) LXR didn't find any more.

I'll talk to mscott about Thunderbird.

Comment 11

[R.J. Keller]

--> default owners

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > (From update of attachment 155530 [details] [diff] [review])
> > The IRC changes are no good because it's an extension. Also you'll need to talk
> > to mscott to see how this will affect Thunderbird. Are you intending to make
> > further changes, for instance there are only two Composer changes here,
> > although the name appears in several other files.
> > 
> 
> what files? (other than the help docs) LXR didn't find any more.
> 
> I'll talk to mscott about Thunderbird.

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