Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35181] Shortened menunames in tinymode not translated

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 27-12-2011 20:13, h.g. muller skrev:
> > What are you talking about? There is no -overrideLinegap option.
>
> Sorry, I meant -overrideLineGap .

Oh, I found it. It needs to be documented! I did really do a 
case-insensitive search in the manual before asking.

But anyway if you explicitly give a value for the linegap, why should 
you need to tell that you mean it once more?

> Besides if the developers have special demands to the translations it
> should be communicated to the translatirs with translator comments in
> the source. Translators aren't mindreaders.
>
> Good point. But I think the German translation asmae by Arun himself,
> and he hardly needed to read any minds for this.

Well, don't complain too much about the German menubar as long as the 
default English also is too wide. (try -size Dinky)

> Anyway, we could sove it by placing such a demand. The alternative is
> that the default -clockFont is calculated from the clock width,
> from the translated text. (Similar to how the default boardSize is
> calculated from the screen size.)
> Problem is ho many digits of time to acount for. Should space be
> reserved for the hours-field?

That is necessay if -tc is 60 minutes or more. But is it really 
necessary to write the color names in full length. Couldn't W and S do 
it for the Germans when the space is limited? Or maybe use some kind of 
color marking or symbol instead of words?

- Byrial