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[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-04-18, at 06:48, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> On 2008-04-18, at 06:07, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
>>> I always thought this is awkward. Shouldn't we do it e.g. in the  
>>> fashion the Qt toolkit works: with a preprocessor that turns the  
>>> xml gui definitions into code at compile time, with the language  
>>> being a configurable parameter. These things are not dynamic  
>>> anyway, so why aren't they part of the main app?
>>

>> Because then they wouldn't be skinnable or editable and you  
>> wouldn't be able to go in and say "if you remove this section from  
>> your overlay panel xml file you can get rid of the damned release  
>> keys button".
>

> It doesn't occur to me that this is a feature people really want.  
> Is it?

It's a feature that most people don't care about most of the time,  
but when they do need it they REALLY need it. I have provided patches  
for these files on Jira and on the blog and in-world and people have  
been VERY grateful for them.

> If those who like to edit their gui files happen to be mostly  
> developers (which I cannot verify), wouldn't it suffice that they  
> can compile their own?

I'm a developer, but I don't want to have to maintain a development  
environment on Windows as well as OS X to tweak the viewer. And every  
time I read this list and see more questions about compatibility  
problems with this or that version of visual studio that gets  
reinforced.

> The whole thing would run faster and more reliable.

It wouldn't be significantly faster... these files are only read at  
startup and they're not a significant part of the startup process.

It wouldn't be significantly more reliable. I don't think I have have  
EVER had a problem caused by these files, except where I caused it by  
editing them... and whether I was rebuilding the client after editing  
them or not wouldn't make much difference there.

As for language translations... you want to require translators to be  
translators as well?