Bug 651894

Summary:	replaceable element should go to variables
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Kalman Kemenczy <kkemenczy>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Thomas Schraitle <thomas.schraitle>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Karl Eichwalder <ke>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	fs
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	702276

Description Kalman Kemenczy 2010-11-06 20:11:56 UTC

As a translator, I would prefer to use variable for the replacement elements, just like that:

<replaceable>&filename;</replaceable>

It would be much easier to translate and work with it.

Comment 1 Thomas Schraitle 2010-11-18 15:37:57 UTC

As we discussed in IRC, varname is more the name of a variable, whereas replaceable means the value.
There might be places where this was not used consistently. I'm not sure what's the best procedure here...

Comment 2 Karl Eichwalder 2010-11-18 15:49:53 UTC

Kalman wants us to use entities (xml lingo); this is not about tagging with <varname> elements.

Franks did some evaluation whether this is possible or not (mabye, we should use entities for consistency for often used "replaceables" such as "filename" or "path".  I admit, I'm not that fond of it--but I'm not one of the main writers, though.

Maybe, Frank wants to a comment.

Comment 3 Thomas Schraitle 2012-05-07 06:42:51 UTC

Is this still an issue? Do we want to support this?
From a writers perspective, this could be a problem.

Comment 5 Thomas Schraitle 2012-07-12 10:45:06 UTC

Is it still an issue? I don't think so, so I'm setting it to resolved for the time being. If anybody thinks it it still important, please reopen it.