Bug 684014 — A few outstanding issues in the internationalisation

Add/Expand some translator comments in the EDS backend.

Closes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684014

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e1359c5..1640dd8 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Overview of changes from libfolks 0.7.4.1 to libfolks 0.7.5
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 Bugs fixed:
+• Bug 684014 — A few outstanding issues in the internationalisation
 
 Overview of changes from libfolks 0.7.4 to libfolks 0.7.4.1
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diff --git a/backends/eds/lib/edsf-persona-store.vala b/backends/eds/lib/edsf-persona-store.vala
index 2cd302c..e97bf2f 100644 (file)
--- a/backends/eds/lib/edsf-persona-store.vala
+++ b/backends/eds/lib/edsf-persona-store.vala
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ public class Edsf.PersonaStore : Folks.PersonaStore
   /* Translators: This should be translated to the name of the “Starred in
    * Android” group in Google Contacts for your language. If Google have not
    * localised the group for your language, or Google Contacts isn't available
-   * in your language, please *do not* translate this string. */
+   * in your language, please *do not* translate this string (i.e. just copy
+   * the msgid to the msgstr unchanged). */
   internal const string android_favourite_group_name = N_("Starred in Android");
 
   internal static const string anti_links_attribute_name = "X-FOLKS-ANTI-LINKS";
@@ -1303,6 +1304,9 @@ public class Edsf.PersonaStore : Folks.PersonaStore
           if (received_notification == false)
             {
               throw new PropertyError.UNKNOWN_ERROR (
+                  /* Translators: the parameter is the name of a property on a
+                   * contact, formatted in the normal GObject style (e.g.
+                   * lowercase with hyphens to separate words). */
                   _("Changing the ‘%s’ property failed due to reaching the timeout."),
                   property_name);
             }