Rather than trying to implement full i18n plural support, we just remove
this failed attempt from the past. The fact is that to get proper
support, we'd basically need to reimplement a Gettext-like plural
definition syntax within our API, then ask people to write down this
plural definition for their language, then to write every plural form…
all this for custom units which only them will ever see!
Moreover code investigation shows that the singular form was simply
never used, and the plural form was always used (whatever the actual
unit value displayed).
As for the "identifier", this was a text which was never shown anywhere
(except in the unit editor) and for all built-in units, as well as
default unitrc units, it was equivalent to the English plural value.
So we now just have a unique name which is the "long label" to be used
everywhere in the GUI, and abbreviation will be basically the "short
label". That's it. No useless (or worse, not actually usable because it
was not generic internationalization) values anymore!
This fixes all our GObject Introspection issues with GimpUnit which was
both an enum and an int-derived type of user-defined units *completing*
the enum values. GIR clearly didn't like this!
Now GimpUnit is a proper class and units are unique objects, allowing to
compare them with an identity test (i.e. `unit == gimp_unit_pixel ()`
tells us if unit is the pixel unit or not), which makes it easy to use,
just like with int, yet adding also methods, making for nicer
introspected API.
As an aside, this also fixes#10738, by having all the built-in units
retrievable even if libgimpbase had not been properly initialized with
gimp_base_init().
I haven't checked in details how GIR works to introspect, but it looks
like it loads the library to inspect and runs functions, hence
triggering some CRITICALS because virtual methods (supposed to be
initialized with gimp_base_init() run by libgimp) are not set. This new
code won't trigger any critical because the vtable method are now not
necessary, at least for all built-in units.
Note that GimpUnit is still in libgimpbase. It could have been moved to
libgimp in order to avoid any virtual method table (since we need to
keep core and libgimp side's units in sync, PDB is required), but too
many libgimpwidgets widgets were already using GimpUnit. And technically
most of GimpUnit logic doesn't require PDB (only the creation/sync
part). This is one of the reasons why user-created GimpUnit list is
handled and stored differently from other types of objects.
Globally this simplifies the code a lot too and we don't need separate
implementations of various utils for core and libgimp, which means less
prone to errors.
With the new API introduced int d1c4457f,
we next need to port all plug-ins using
the argument macros to functions.
This will allow us to remove the macros
as part of the 3.0 API clean-up.
Hardcoded colors don't work well with theme customization (on a dark theme in
particular, it was bad).
Anyway built-in units are already grayed-out and non-editable. I don't think
further styling is needed.
This removes a bunch of inconsistencies we had from the before-2.99.16 version
because new items from plug-ins were all added at the bottom of their respective
submenu.
- Don't forget to run gimp_ui_init() to get GIMP's styling in plug-ins.
- Process the "key-press-event" signal so that Escape key closes the window (as
it used to before the MR commit).
- Expand vertically the tree view, otherwise resizing the window leaves a lot of
ugly empty space, even though the tree view is still shown incomplete with a
scrollbar.
- Fix the Help button (which was doing nothing).
- Use full words for the "Refresh" and "Help" buttons, rather than icons. Text
is usually prefered for UI discoverability/understandability, unless there is
a space issue (i.e. too many icons for all of them to be words).
- Add a "OK" button too, and reorder the buttons similarly to how we usually
order them.
- Minor coding style fixes (alignments…).
This is the consequence of previous commit. Plug-ins' label and
documentation are now localized before sending these data to GIMP core.
In other words, we replace N_() macros with basic gettext calls.
Hence avoiding the stderr messages. These are going to be localized with
centrally installed catalogs "gimp*-std-plugins", "gimp*-script-fu" and
"gimp*-python".
We now handle core plug-in localizations differently and in particular,
with kind of a reverse logic:
- We don't consider "gimp*-std-plugins" to be the default catalog
anymore. It made sense in the old world where we would consider the
core plug-ins to be the most important and numerous ones. But we want
to push a world where people are even more encouraged to develop their
own plug-ins. These won't use the standard catalog anymore (because
there are nearly no reasons that the strings are the same, it's only a
confusing logic). So let's explicitly set the standard catalogs with
DEFINE_STD_SET_I18N macro (which maps to a different catalog for
script-fu plug-ins).
- Doing something similar for Python plug-ins which have again their own
catalog.
- Getting rid of the INIT_I18N macro since now all the locale domain
binding is done automatically by libgimp when using the set_i18n()
method infrastructure.
Try to sort all GIMP_ICON_* defines into FDO categories like in
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/latest/ar01s04.html
Add defines for all icons we override, rename some icons to their FDO
standard names, and mark the ones we duplicate with a comment so we
don't forget to rename those to standard names in 3.0.
and keep GIMP_ICON_TYPE_STOCK_ID as a deprecated alias. Change all
plug-ins accordingly and increase the pluginrc file version number so
it gets regenerated with "icon-name" instead of "stock-id".
2009-01-17 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* all files with a GPL header and all COPYING files:
Change licence to GPLv3 (and to LGPLv3 for libgimp).
Cleaned up some copyright headers and regenerated the parsers in
the ImageMap plugin.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=27913
