BørgeDec 17

Don't mind me, I've just used a new (to me) Gnome app for a few minutes

#Gnome #TranslationEditor #translation #gtranslator #l10n

Show threadPeter Krefting

@forteller GTranslator gets worse every time I upgrade Debian. The one in Debian 13 doesn't let me change the size of the input boxes any more, so I can't see more than a few lines of what I am translating.

I've switched back to using a text editor...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120318

#GNOME #GTranslator #FAIL #BadUX

#1120318 - gtranslator: Can no longer resize input field - Debian Bug report logs

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Show threadBørgeDec 17

@nafmo Great to hear that you also help out with translation!

But I think probably what happened here was just unlucky timing, where Translation Editor changed something at the same time as you upgraded Debian. Because I'm not on Debian, and I can't resize it either.

So probably it's gtranslator that needs to fix this. I found an issue about it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtranslator/-/issues/213 Go give it a thumbs up :)

Input text area is too small for some translation strings (#213) · Issues · GNOME / gtranslator · GitLab

Some source messages are too big (e.g. docs with a huge paragraph) or have many lines (e.g. CLI usage output), and the text areas (original and translation) are...

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Show threadPeter KreftingDec 17

Thanks. I usually report the bugs to Debian, as its their builds I'm using, and then let them forward the bugs upstream as appropriate.

Yes, I do some translations, these days its mostly Git and Dpkg.