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Qt4 uic handling of text comments in UI files

• Subject: Qt4 uic handling of text comments in UI files
• From: Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:25:14 +0200
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When a property contains comment as well as string, like this:

  <property name="text">
      <string>My Button</string>
      <comment>A shiny button.</comment>
  </property>

uic seems to ignore the comment and generates the tr() call:

  tr("My Button", 0)

instead of:

  tr("My Button", "A shiny button.")

Is this bug, feature, or undefined behavior? Can something be done about it,
so that the comment does show in the tr() call?

The comment is needed to support i18n API of KDE. The Qt comment is treated
as disambiguation string for the text, together with text it forms unique
message key in KDE's PO files. So by not having the comment in the generated
tr() call, this possiblity of disambiguation is lost when using UI files.

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