#2161 closed enhancement (fixed)
Calculate's characters
| Reported by: | timClicks | Owned by: | akshit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: | Unspecified |
| Component: | Calculate | Version: | Git as of bugdate |
| Severity: | Unspecified | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | smparrish, garycmartin, cjl, sascha_silbe | Distribution/OS: | |
| Bug Status: | Unconfirmed |
Description
Calculate doesn't look like a calculator, it looks like a computer. In principle, I think that the software should be able to translate any characters.
Some recommended changes:
Enter => =
- => × / => ÷
Attachments (1)
Change History (13)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by walter
- Component changed from untriaged to Calculate
- Owner set to rwh
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by smparrish
- Cc smparrish added
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by smparrish
- seeta_dev set to Shachi
Changed 13 years ago by ishan
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by akshit
- Owner changed from rwh to akshit
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by akshit
- Status changed from assigned to accepted
comment:6 follow-up: ↓ 8 Changed 12 years ago by cjl
- Cc garycmartin added
adding gary as a cc. Who is maintaining Calculate now?
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by cjl
- Cc cjl added
comment:8 in reply to: ↑ 6 Changed 12 years ago by garycmartin
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
Replying to cjl:
adding gary as a cc. Who is maintaining Calculate now?
I make Calculate releases these days, some minor patches, and testing, but I liaise with Reinier when it's more than that. Regarding this ticket, the symbols are all in the locale files so there is nothing to patch in the source. Actually if you run Calculate in Spanish, who ever localised there already went with the * => × and / => ÷ characters. I don't have a strong opinion about the suggested change, but I'd not object.
comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by sascha_silbe
- Cc sascha_silbe added
- Distribution/OS Unspecified deleted
- Keywords sugar-love removed
cjl and I talked about this on #sugar. He considers this patch good to go from an i18n perspective.
It would be nice to either land the patch (preferred) or drop it. It's been in the queue for over nine months now...
comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by cjl
+1 on landing it
comment:11 follow-up: ↓ 12 Changed 12 years ago by garycmartin
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from accepted to closed
OK I'm landing this in the next Calculate release, but it has almost zero effect in English locales other than the '=' sign instead of 'Enter', as the /po translations override the default new symbols. So po files need the * and / symbols removed (empty strings get replaced with default symbol). I've hacked at least the en and en_US po files in my local clone for the release I'm about to make.
comment:12 in reply to: ↑ 11 Changed 12 years ago by cjl
Replying to garycmartin:
OK I'm landing this in the next Calculate release
Give me an hour or so before you build and I'll run through the PO files and commit where needed.
