Subsurface 5.0.7 has been released

[Christof Arnosti]

Hi,

So, I now get where the problem with the missing Strings is coming from:

I'm using German (Switzerland) locale on my secondary computer. The 
German (Germany) translation is complete, but the German (Switzerland) 
translation is not.

I started copying the missing values from German (Germany) to German 
(Switzerland), but it's a boring manual process (transifex does not seem 
to provide bulk copying between two translated languages), and I suspect 
that in the future for new strings the same problem will arise. The 
difference between the two languages is very small, and to be honest, 
German (Switzerland) is not a very "relevant" dialect in the sense that 
people who can read German (Switzerland) are guaranteed to also be able 
to read German (Germany).

Before I continue my work: Would it be possible to have German (Germany) 
as fallback language for German (Switzerland)? Thus, if German 
(Switzerland) is selected, the order of strings would be "German 
(Switzerland) -> German (Germany) -> English" instead of "German 
(Switzerland) -> English"?

With this solution, a reasonable user experience would be provided to 
German (Switzerland) users when Strings are updated, and the German 
(Switzerland) translation is missing. For the few strings that are 
different between German (Switzerland) and German (Germany), they could 
be overwritten in the German (Switzerland) translation. Maybe it wouldbe 
even better if German (Switzerland) would only contain the few strings 
that are different in the two dialects, so that Swiss users would also 
automatically get German (Germany) translation improvements...

Best
Christof

Am 25.03.22 um 01:34 schrieb Dirk Hohndel:
>
>
>> On Mar 24, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Christof Arnosti <charno at charno.ch> wrote:
>>
>> I did my "usual" workflow (importing, editing divesite, 
>> editing/adding gear). I didn't notice anything breaking or worrying.
>>
>
> Yay! thank you
>
>> I did however notice two things:
>>
>> - In the "Gears" tab, the columns are sometimes too narrow in the 
>> default settings (bottle type / lead type) to display the content of 
>> the dropdown in the list. This might be since with German language 
>> settings the title of the column is very short ("Typ")
>>
>
> We have always struggled having good default column widths. I keep 
> thinking that I should work on that - and then there are a million 
> other things to do. But yes, this has been a problem since forever.
>
>> - There seem to be some missing German strings. I just joined 
>> transifex so I might be able to put some work into German / Swiss 
>> German translations.
>>
>
> I added you. It's possible that the strings themselves aren't marked 
> for translation.
> It's always good to send screen shots if you run into issues like that 
> - that way the rest of us can help figure out what's going on.
>
> Thanks
>
> /D
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