[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH manager] Make explicit the meaning of an empty storage field

[Dominik Csapak]

On 02/09/2017 04:13 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
>
> +	    emptyText: gettext('Same as source'),
>
> On 02/08/2017 07:05 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> I would like to avoid additional gettext entries if possible.
>>
>> Do we know the source storage? If so, can we set that storage as 'emptyText'?
>> Other ideas?
>
> We don't know the source storage*s*, we have only the limited info from
> the Resource Store at that point. (vmid, vm name, isTemplate ... )
>
> We could do here an API call to get the list of storages from the source
> VM but I am not sure if a concatenated list of storages in the box will
> be much readable.
>
> As an alternative I was thinking of rewriting the emptyText as
>
> Ext.String.format(gettext('Same as {0}'), vmid),
>
> in the hope of making the new gettext string reusable.
>
>

i think the text "same as source" is short enough, and brings a great 
value, because it is definitely not clear what an empty target storage 
box does.

'same as {0}' i do not find so good, because depending on the context,
a translation seems to be hard (in german i would translate "same as 
source" with "wie quelle" but "same as {0}" could be translated as: 
"genauso wie {0}", "gleich(es/er) wie {0}", etc.)