[Qgis-developer] String categories in translations files

[Borys Jurgiel]

Hi List,
I've just opened linguist and realized that some strings newly added to the 
translation files are a little messed. The strings of fTools are put to a few 
unclearly named categories/contexts scattered among others. The Beata strings 
are put to the categories BeataDialog and BeataDialogGui whereas the old table 
was in the QgsAttributeTable, QgsAttributeTableBase and 
QgsAttributeTableDisplay. In general, most of the categories are named as 
QgsClassName, including QgsClassNameBase for ui files.

What about keeping these rules for all plugins too? I think at least fTools 
shouldn't be scattered as GeometryDialog, VisualDialog etc but rather 
alphabetically gathered as fToolsGeometryDialog, fToolsVisualDialog... (if not 
QgsFtoolsGeometryDialog and QgsFtoolsVisualDialog).

The bad news for Carson is the categories are just the class names, so you would 
have to rename all fTools classes :(( But the advantage is that translators will 
be aware where are the strings from...

My idea is probably best illustrated by the QgsPluginInstaller categories.

Regards,
B.