954977 - The order of strings in each purple/locales/en-US/*.properties file should be independent of the content of other properties file

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 1545 at 2012-06-24 00:11:00 UTC ***

Adding the bonjour prpl changed the orders of a few strings in most other .properties files. I really dislike that behavior; the cause is that I'm using a single .pot file for the whole libpurple/ tree.
The strings are ordered (I think) by the order in which they appear in the source code so for example, if bonjour (starting with a "b" it's sorted before "oscar") uses strings that used to be needed only for oscar, now these strings will appear before in the oscar.properties file.

01:59:04 - flo: I should rewrite the convert script to order the strings independently for each .properties file
02:00:24 - flo: adding bonjour.properties moves 17 strings around in the other locale files of purple/
02:00:31 - flo: that's unfortunate, but not too terrible
02:00:45 - flo: however if I fix the real bug, it's possible half the strings, or even more, will be moved around
02:02:26 - clokep: That sounds more annoying. :P
02:07:20 - flo: clokep: yeah, it will be annoying at the time we fix the bug :-/
02:07:30 - flo: but the resulting order should make more sense, and be stable

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.