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Message-Id: <1F476260-8416-40F4-8919-069ED2085D1A@shinnok.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:10:34 +0300
From: Shinnok <admin@...nnok.com>
To: "john-dev@...ts.openwall.com" <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Improving Johnny



> On 15 Apr 2015, at 22:26, Aleksey Cherepanov <aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> It's not a full reply. Maybe there will be a follow up to cover other
> parts.
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:40:38PM -0400, Mathieu Laprise wrote:
>> First, I reviewed the code to see if the string were marked as
>> translatable. Almost all of them were. I found a problematic case in
>> MainWindow::showJohnError. There were two functions in #define and their
>> strings didn't register as translatable in the .ts file. I refactored it to
>> make it works and easier to read. After that,I translated all strings to
>> french since it's my first language. Finally, I added the .qm file to the
>> resource file to keep everything in the executable. If you want to test it,
>> you'll have to set your OS language to french. Do you think it would be
>> useful to add a top down list in Johnny settings to change language for
>> people who wouldn't want to use their system language ?
> 
> There are several cases when system language is not convenient:
> - bad translation,
> - letters to trigger menu item (those underscored like F in File;
> using & in label like in "&File") follow the language, it's not
> convenient if you have several keyboard layouts,

About the menu shortcuts, Qt provides some support for that when you translate via the ampersand char.

> - lack of tutorial (with screen shots or video tutorial) in your
> language,
> - wish to use systems with different system languages keeping the same
> keyboard behaviour and/or look,
> - when you debug your language support (like width of labels).

I'm planning on adding a custom elided QLabel and QPushButton anyway and that would take care of this. I'll add that task to the roadmap.

> 
> On Linux, language may be set for a single call from shell with LANG
> and/or LC_* variables (man 7 locale) like
> LANG=fr_FR.utf-8 ./johnny
> 
> (It may or may not work. I'll test later.)
> 
>> Let's celebrate the first pull request of Johnny :) I double checked with
>> care and Github says that it can be automatically merged. So there doesn't
>> seem to have any problems. If you prefer to do it manually, no problem :)
>> 
>> Here is the link : https://github.com/shinnok/johnny/pull/1
> 
> Great! Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Aleksey Cherepanov

A thoughtful evaluation Aleksey, good job.

Shinnok

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