Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Cosmetic changes?

Hi Tom,
Le 16/12/2014 10:09, Tom Davies a écrit :
> Hi :)
> It might help to have a few people on both mailing lists (or whatever the
> devs use to communicate between each other).

That's what I'm supposed to do, but I think you've noticed it :)
> That way maybe one of those people might notice when one of the mailing
> lists starts talking about doing something that might have an impact on one
> of the other mailing lists they are on.

yes, and I'm constantly discussing the string changes with the UX team
(mostly Jay and on IRC). Because of the openness of our project, anybody
can suggest a change without being aware of the impact it can have for
other team or sometime even for the product. Cor is monitoring a lot on
Bugzilla about those changes and he is dedicating a lot of his time.
> On the Accessibility Mailing List a few days ago there was mention that one
> of the recent breakages could be fixed by adding a tiny bit of text into
> the menu items.  I warned them that;
> 1.  it would impact on the translators who were struggling with a similar
> issue right now.
> 2.  if they could get their changes in within a couple of days then it
> might neatly fit into the work the translators are doing right now and thus
> avoid duplication
> 3.  that if they couldn't get their UI changes in right now then it would
> be better to wait a few months, or longer, in the hope that the translators
> might get some automation to handle it.
>
> The result seems to be that they have given up on getting that improvement
> through :(  NOT the result i'd intended because i think Accessibility is
> also crucial and it gets far less support than translators or
> documentation.

The trick is to add the shortcuts to the menu label in order for them to
be read by screen readers. Whether it will be done or not will depend on
who will open the issue and implement it. Stuart is part of the Design
team, so he is aware of the l10n team request about massive changes, but
I will monitor it.
> Imo it would have been great if the current set of changes had been
> coordinated with stuff that the other teams need.  There is already a
> system to try to coordinate between teams but it doesn't seem to be
> working.

What system are you talking about?
> I think if it was backed-up by having a few people liaising between a
> couple of mailing lists, and a couple other people liaising between a
> couple of other mailing lists then it might be easier to coordinate between
> the teams.

The only way to coordinate is to do cross communication between the teams :)
Cheers
Sophie


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