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While a full-blown messages editor is unlikely to be completed soon, how feasible would it be to create a simple plugin that allows you to click a string, and using your browser, it would take you to the actual string in the Babel translation server? I realize this is not ideal, but it would allow translators to easily fix broken translations.
When you say 'click a string', do you mean within the message editor or within the running application? The Babel runtime translation plug-in is designed to handle the latter case. However it is far from simple because the process of finding the source for text that appears in a control is far from simple. Neither the Babel message editor nor the Babel runtime plug-in currently work well in the Babel environment because there is no programmatic access to the Babel web server. This is already covered by bug 223036. Antoine has done some work on a web services interface, but we still don't have what we would need, ie. given a plug-in, resource bundle, message key, and language, we need to be able to look up the text and to set the text. I would not have thought it would be much work, especially given Antoine's work. But I do not have PHP experience so I can't really judge. I would be more than happy to complete the necessary work in both the Message Editor and the Babel runtime plug-in if a server API was available. I even have code that handles the obtaining of the bugzilla login.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
The Babel project currently has very limited resource. Resolve this as WONTFIX.
