The default mailViews.dat file contains the following hardcoded text: 3 name="People I Know" 7 name="Recent Mail" 11 name="Last 5 Days" 15 name="Not Junk" 19 name="Has Attachments" If possible, these strings should be placed in a .dtd or .properties file to enable easier translation. The format of this file is not one that most translators are familiar with, and there are several other lines in the file that should not be translated (enabled=..., condition=...)

This should definately be done, I would consider this a critical bug in the internationalization of Mozilla. As I understand it theese are the only strings that have not been put together with the rest of the localization-information?

can someone put together a patch? lets shoot to have this done by 1.7b if someone can get the work done.

- Moves the default names in the mailViews.dat file to a properties file. - If there is not a preexisting mailViews.dat file, that means that we will try and copy the default one from the system defaults directory. When reading it, we substitute all names with the ones found in the properties file. After substituting everything, we write over the mailViews.dat file in the user's profile so that all of the names are properly translated.

Could you name the file mailViewDefaultNames.properties instead of mailviews-default.properties? I just think it looks more consistant with the other files.

Scott, can you review this patch? This would be nice to get in for alpha6 so we don't have to worry about the l10n freeze deadline at beta.

not going to hold the release for this but we'd consider taking a fully reviewed patch if it's available in time.

Comment on attachment 154569 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 this patch is a good start, but it doesn't work very well for folks who switcch locals back and forth. I have a different way of fixing this that will work for existing and new profiles and will change with locale switches as well.

add a prettyName attribute to a mail view just like we currently do for mail folders. Similar to the way we handle mail folders, if the raw name of the mail view matches one of our default views, then we look up the translated pretty name and return it as the pretty name. Now, as locale changes, the names of the default views will change too. Once you change the name of a default view (just like we currently do with a folder today) to something else, then all bets are off. Note: nsMailViewList.cpp was using 4 spaces per tab so I kept doing that. mailViewSetup.js has two minor changes in my tree from the search criteria re-write last month.