On 01/07/2012 11:56 PM, Andras Timar wrote:
I've just found this feature, soffice -h displays a dialog box on
Windows with some help text.
Problems:
1. Dialog is not localisable. Help text comes from const char arrays
in desktop/source/app/cmdlinehelp.cxx
2. Help text is clipped, there is not enough room on the dialog.
3. If I resized the dialog, it would not fit on a 1024x768 screen.
I wonder, if we could fix this before UI freeze on Monday. I need your
input regarding how to present this information to users.
Not sure we need either this dialog box or any localization at all:
On other platforms, soffice -h outputs to stdout (or maybe stderr).
Given that adding command line arguments (what soffice -h educates
about) is presumably done mostly through some terminal, anyway, I'm not
sure there is any demand to display this help information in a dialog
instead of on stdout/err. I don't know what the current status of GUI
applications like soffice routinely printing to stdout/err is on current
Windows versions, so I don't know if this hack to use a dialog is still
needed. (The unopkg executable used to go to pains to be able to use
stdin/out/err even though it is a GUI application, wrapping unopkg.exe
in a unopkg.com that does the necessary console magic.)
Independent of that, I'm always puzzled when programs localize
information about their technical interfaces that are English-centric,
anyway. (Like a C compiler localizing its error messages, where the C++
language constructs are English tokens; or soffice localizing
documentation of its command line arguments, where those arguments are
English tokens.) But maybe that is just me.
Stephan
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