[Lazarus] Translating the Component Palette tabs

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:33:14 +0200
Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 04.08.2012 19:45, schrieb Maxim Ganetsky:
> > 04.08.2012 20:35, Graeme Geldenhuys пишет:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Can one translate the component palette tabs? I heard that German is
> >> the most up-to-date translation, and even so the words 'Standard',
> >> 'Additional', 'Common Controls' appear in the component palette when I
> >> switch the IDE to German language.
> >>
> >> Is this an oversight in the IDE resource string (not existing resource
> >> strings), or does the translated languages simply not bother with the
> >> component palette?
> >
> > It is not an oversight, it is more that a lot of such captions won't be
> > translated anyway, e.g. "SynEdit", "LazControls", "fpWeb", "SQLdb".
> > I think that it is better to keep palette not translated at all, than to
> > have a (hard to read and navigate) mix of languages.
> >
> 
> For the sake of completeness (not that I'm suggesting this as a 
> solution): Delphi translates all tabs of components that belong to the 
> IDE (e.g. Standard, Dialogs, Additional etc.), but not those of 3rd 
> Party components (e.g. I can see "Indy Misc" in my component palette). I 
> don't know whether you can somehow trigger a translation of your own tab 
> from your design time package...

We could add a Caption property to TBaseComponentPage.
But then we need hints to easily find out the real name.

Mattias