[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Duplicated texts in help file

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:04:01PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 05:29:42PM +0200, Torinthiel wrote:
> > > Some messages in help_mp-en.h are duplicated. Specifically:
> > > MSGTR_MENU_PlayList and MSGTR_PlayList: "Playlist"
> > > MSGTR_MENU_Preferences and MSGTR_Preferences: "Preferences"
> > > MSGTR_PREFERENCES_Audio and MSGTR_EQU_Audio: "Audio"
> > > MSGTR_PREFERENCES_Video and MSGTR_EQU_Video: "Video"
> > > MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FRAME_Misc and MSGTR_PREFERENCES_Misc: "Misc"
> > > 
> > > This means that two #defines in help-* are defined to exactly the same
> > > strings. The attached patch makes this more obvious, by defining one of
> > > them to the other.
> > > Rationale: 
> > > 1. Less duplication
> > > 2. Automatic generation of .po files that I'm working on will work
> > > 3. Translations can easily omit the duplicated string, help_diff.sh will
> > >    fix it correctly.
> > > 
> > > Disadvantages: 
> > > If one changes the master string it might go unnoticed. Maybe adding
> > > a short comment after the master string will help it.
> > 
> > I'd say commit it, but please also update the translations.
> 
> Torinthiel: ping...

ping timeout

Apply or get kicked out of the patch queue ;-p

Diego