<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Greg Hellings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Ben Morgan <<a href="mailto:benpmorgan@gmail.com">benpmorgan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Since we have an abbreviation field already designated for the conf,<br>
>> perhaps we should make it required? Or perhaps applications could<br>
>> use, first, the Abbreviation field if present and only fall back to<br>
>> the module name if an Abbreviation is lacking? That way the module<br>
>> creator of GerThis or GerThat could display THIS instead of GerThis if<br>
>> they wanted in well-behaved applications?<br>
>><br>
>> Otherwise, what is the purpose of the Abbreviation field?<br>
><br>
> It's probably best not to make it required (most existing modules won't have<br>
> it), but trying using the Abbreviation first then the Name as a replacement<br>
> if necessary was the use case it was specifically put in for.<br>
><br>
> When this last came up was when it was decided to put the Abbreviation field<br>
> in the .conf files, but I don't know that<br>
> a) it was done in any of the conf files<br>
> b) any frontend authors added support for it<br>
><br>
> If a) happens, b) is likely to follow.<br>
<br>
</div>If it musters approval with the BT crowd, I'm going to start with (b)<br>
and then see if (a) ever comes along. Sounds like Peter would<br>
appreciate if Xiphos were to also have this - maybe he's willing to<br>
provide appropriate German language abbreviations to the conf files to<br>
include the Abbreviation for those modules that he said annoy him?<br></blockquote><div><br>Whether or not you have a German localised name (which was I think discussed and could be supported with Abbreviation_de, but opens another can of worms), even "Luther 1545" is a marked improvement over "GerLut1545".<br>
<br>Jon<br></div></div><br>