[ovirt-devel] new UI i18n mechanism

[Vojtech Szocs]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> Cc: "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 4:33:20 PM
> Subject: new UI i18n mechanism
> 
> [changed thread title since it's a new subject]
> 
> > Hmmm, I think we should do something similar in UI's i18n mechanism.
> 
> can you please explain/elaborate?

Sure :)

As we're planning to improve existing oVirt UI i18n mechanism,
we could also include unused message key detection into this
effort. As Allon wrote, we don't want translators to waste time
translating something that isn't used at all at runtime.

We have some high-level goals we'd like to accomplish within
this "UI i18n overhaul" effort, in short:

- improve GWT compile performance
  (should make all-langs + all-user-agents builds faster)

- externalize i18n messages out of GWT permutations
  (UI properties deployed on Engine for better handling)

- improve UI translation process
  (make life easier for translators, we have many ideas)

Scott and me should be driving this effort so if you have any
other ideas, we'd love to hear them.

Vojtech


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> > To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:28:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] AppErrors cleanup
> > 
> > Hmmm, I think we should do something similar in UI's i18n mechanism.
> > 
> > Vojtech
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> > > To: "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:46:01 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] AppErrors cleanup
> > > 
> > > Same has been done for AuditLogMessages.properties (vs. the AuditLogType
> > > enum).
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Allon Mureinik < amureini at redhat.com >
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > A recent bug [1] reported as part of the translation effort alerted me to
> > > the
> > > fact that we have a lot (and I mean a LOT - over 100 per file) of
> > > deprecated, unused keys in the various AppErrors files that serve no
> > > purpose
> > > and just take up space and waste translators time when they examine them.
> > > 
> > > To make a long story short - I've just merged a patch to remove all these
> > > useless messages, and enforce via unit tests that EVERY key there should
> > > have a corresponding constant in the EngineMessage or EngineError enums.
> > > 
> > > Many thanks to my reviewers!
> > > I know this was an tedious patch that couldn't have been too fun to
> > > review.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -Allon
> > > 
> > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244766
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