[Adium-devl] Watching a first time Adium user for 5 minutes

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Jan 28, 2007, at 17:31, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> The only real advantage here I see is that it makes it easier to  
> parse out the substituted values

Yes, that's the whole idea about it.

> which is currently done in the few remaining places (are there any?)

Apparently, there are, otherwise your tester wouldn't have gotten  
that message.

> it's needed by looking at the strings before and after the  
> substituted text.  If the libgaim string changed,we'd still have to  
> update *something* to get the "translation" again.

It would only be necessary if the number of arguments or something  
similar changed.
Of course, this is a bad hack due to the fact that gaim doesn't  
separate the backend and GUI properly, and should be phased out  
eventually.

andy