Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

new string overrides for web runtime

11 views
Skip to first unread message

Myk Melez

unread,
Dec 6, 2013, 7:31:58 PM12/6/13
to Mozilla l10n, Donovan Preston
Localizers!

Bug 707294 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707294>, whose
fix is on inbound
<https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/86307d61bcb3>,
overrides a set of strings in appstrings.properties and dom.properties
for the desktop web runtime <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/WebRT>
(webapprt) to use the word "application" in place of "page", since the
runtime renders (web) applications, and it's misleading to describe them
as pages in the runtime's interface.

Other than that change, the override strings will be similar to the
original strings, and their localizations are presumably also similar,
so it should be possible to localize them by reference to the originals.

(There are also deeper questions to address about when it makes sense
for the runtime to display such strings in its UI, and when the runtime
should identify that UI as belonging to the runtime versus the app. But
the particular bug in question is intended to address the immediate
issue of how we describe the app. We'll tackle the deeper questions over
time.)

-myk

Francesco Lodolo [:flod]

unread,
Dec 7, 2013, 4:07:41 AM12/7/13
to dev-...@lists.mozilla.org
Il 07/12/13 01:31, Myk Melez ha scritto:
> Other than that change, the override strings will be similar to the
> original strings, and their localizations are presumably also similar,
> so it should be possible to localize them by reference to the originals.
Since I've just checked the strings (if they don't change before merge
to mozilla-central).

*appstrings.properties*
Use the one in browser/chrome/overrides as a reference, not the one in
dom/chrome. But don't copy it over as it is: there are only a few
strings in /webapprt and not that similar.

*dom.properties*
In this case you can copy the file from dom/chrome and fix the changed
strings (only 6)
http://pastebin.com/jC0fEDmM

Francesco

0 new messages