[Bug 641480] Re: English printf string hard to translate

[Alex Launi]

This is no bug here. These are just english strings that have no
influence on the translation. If you are confusing %s with a
pluralization rule, you are mistaken. %s is a placeholder for a string
to be substituted in. The note is to tell you to format the string as
you would in your language where a plural noun will be subject.

** Changed in: unity
Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid

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English printf string hard to translate

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[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

You don't understand the problem here. It has nothing to do with plural forms. Consider the following French translations:
- There are no games installed on this computer. -> Il n'y a aucun jeu installé sur cet ordinateur.
- There are no graphical applications installed on this computer. -> Il n'y a aucune application graphique installée sur cet ordinateur.

Now, in French %s would be replaced, respectively, with "jeu" and
"application graphique", but notice other parts of the sentence also
change in accordance to the gender of the nouns.

Not all languages are as simple as English WRT syntax, and many
languages are even more complex than French in that regard. So please
add one full translatable sentence for each category, instead of blindly
filling %s placeholders. This is what I referred to as the "basic
programming rules" from GNU. (And I'm disappointed Unity devs needed 5
months to even consider this simple but serious bug, just to close it.)

** Changed in: unity
Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Changed in: unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)

Status: Invalid => Confirmed

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

** Also affects: unity-place-files
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

** Changed in: unity-place-files
Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: unity-place-files
Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: unity-place-files
Milestone: None => 0.5.40

** Changed in: unity-place-files
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Milestone: None => 0.2.36

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)

** Changed in: unity
Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: unity
Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: unity
Milestone: None => 3.6

** Changed in: unity
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)

[Didier Roche]

** Changed in: unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)

Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: unity-place-files (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged

[Didier Roche]

** Changed in: unity
Milestone: 3.6 => 3.6.2

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

** Branch linked: lp:unity-place-applications

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Changed in: unity-place-files
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Changed in: unity
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

** Branch linked: lp:unity-place-files