Bug 343325

Summary:	Allow jobs to set message when finished
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kcoreaddons	Reporter:	Martin Klapetek <mklapetek>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michael Pyne <mpyne>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, kdelibs-bugs-null, lasse.liehu, safa1996alfulaij
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Martin Klapetek 2015-01-26 12:46:44 UTC

Currently when any job with UI progress tracking ends, an awkward string is produced in Plasma from the job's description, like "Copying: Finished" or in kde4 times this was "Copying [Finished]". We cannot simply do "%1 Finished" because not all translations can safely translate that.

So it would be super awesome if KJob actually provided a way for the job to pass the "finished" string all in one piece, like "Copying Finished". This would also allow for better translations and better quite possibly better titles altogether. For jobs that would not have set the finished string, the current fallback would be used, eg "%1: Finished".

I'm not sure where this would fit the best, maybe emitResult() could take a string? Or a setter method on the job itself?

Comment 1 Safa Alfulaij 2018-01-26 04:36:37 UTC

I was looking into something in KI18n and found out this “Dynamic context”[1].
I think if we use these contexts and allow translators to have as many as they want, to later on define which one to use in Plasma notifications for example, that would be much better than a dedicated string for completion, or maybe incompletion, etc etc.

1: https://api.kde.org/frameworks/ki18n/html/prg_guide.html#dyn_ctxt

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2022-11-15 22:58:36 UTC

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