[Adium-devl] Issues with translated preferences

[Kiel Gillard]

Does the same thing happen with languages other than English and  
German (in which case, wouldn't we know about it already)?

Kiel :-)
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On 17/04/2007, at 10:19 PM, Christopher Harms wrote:

> I think, they are both. As far as I can see that (and as far as I  
> remember the project I used SS_PrefsController myself), they are  
> loaded dynamically from the according nib-Files. Nevertheless, they  
> are translated, which leads to the problem mentioned below.
> Easy proof: iterating all items in [prefsController loadedPanes]  
> gives all loaded Panes, stored in the SS_PrefsController with their  
> name/identifier. I get the following list:
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Erscheinungsbild
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Erweitert
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Status
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Konten
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Allgemein
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Persönliches
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Dateiübertragung
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Nachrichten
> 2007-04-17 14:10:53.238 Adium[1996] Ereignisse
> This are all translated. I suppose, you'll get something like this:  
> Appearance, Advanced, Status (that's, btw, the reason I see only  
> the Status-pane), Accounts, General, Personal, File Transfer,  
> Messages, Events. As you can see, the names stored in the  
> SS_PrefsController, are depending on the used translation. So it's  
> clear, that setPanesOrder: won't work with English names if you're  
> using a translated Adium/MacOs/whatever.
>
> Christopher
>
> Am 17.04.2007 um 13:58 schrieb Kiel Gillard:
>
>> Aren't those hard coded strings toolbar item identifiers? That is,  
>> they're not supposed to be human readable they're just used purely  
>> for the internal workings of Adium?
>>
>> Kiel
>> "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is  
>> blind."
>> Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>> On 17/04/2007, at 9:50 PM, Christopher Harms wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>> sorry, for double-mailing, but I think this is more a bug than  
>>> something done for purpose.
>>> The problem is, that the [[[AIObject sharedAdiumInstance]  
>>> preferenceController] paneArray]-Array (s.  
>>> AIPreferenceWindowController.m, line 69) contains the panes with  
>>> translated captions (loaded from the translated nib-files of  
>>> course). By calling setPanesOrder: the Controller doesn't know  
>>> what to do, because you are giving him the English names, which  
>>> he doesn't know (from the paneArray he only knows the German-or- 
>>> whatever names). (Hard-coded strings suck. ;-))
>>> I don't have a fix for this by now, because I'm not sure how all  
>>> the stuff works, but as soon as I have something for this, I'm  
>>> uploading a patch to Trac.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christopher
>>>
>>> Am 17.04.2007 um 12:56 schrieb Christopher Harms:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I'm not sure if you are aware of this and I'm not sure if this is
>>>> sufficient to create a new bug report, since it's about the
>>>> development-sources.
>>>>
>>>> Whenever I compile the current Adium-source and open the  
>>>> Preferences-
>>>> window I online see the "Status"-pane and no toolbar. The  
>>>> problem is,
>>>> that SS_PrefsController loads only this specific pane (see debuglog
>>>> says that there is no toolbar, because only one pane is loaded [s.
>>>> SS_PrefsController.m, l. 479]).
>>>> The reason is, that I'm working on a German MacOS  X, so Adium  
>>>> loads
>>>> the German translation of all nib-Files.
>>>> In AIPreferenceWindowController.m, line 72 it says:
>>>> 		[prefsController setPanesOrder:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:
>>>> 			@"Accounts",
>>>> 			NSToolbarSeparatorItemIdentifier,
>>>> 			@"General", @"Personal", @"Appearance", @"Messages", @"Status",
>>>> @"Events", @"File Transfer", @"Advanced", nil]];
>>>> I guess, prefsController is now going to load Views, titled with
>>>> "General", "Personal", etc. But though the panes and views (i.e.  
>>>> the
>>>> nib-files) are translated the loader won't find anything, because
>>>> they are now titled with "Allgemein", "Persönlich", etc. (i.e. the
>>>> German translations).
>>>>
>>>> Is this a known issue?
>>>> I would just go ahead to fix this bug, but I'm still diving into  
>>>> the
>>>> code and I'm not finished with unterstanding it. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Christopher
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