[update-manager-devel] localising error and debug messages

[Stephan Peijnik]

Firstly, thanks for your input and sorry it took me that long to
respond.

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 12:13 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> re: http://blog.peijnik.at/2009/06/02/should-cli-debug-output-and-error-messages-be-localized-in-a-gui-application/
> 
> I'd put a simple rule of thumb:
> 
> If the content of a specific message would help the user to fix the
> problem *without* needing to contact the developers, localise it.
> 
> If the content of a specific message is only really useful to the
> maintainers via a bug report, format it in that way.
> 
> I don't think you can generalise across all error and debug messages -
> it depends more on the message itself.

That sounds like a good solution. My point was that average Joe is not
going to see messages sent to stdout anyways when it comes to a GUI
application. Messages displayed via the GUI have to be localized
anyways.

-- Stephan