Hi Daniel,

> I like this general approach of reducing the number of calls by making
> the frameworks translation aware, so the applications don't have to be.

The applications have to be translatable and not the frameworks just
because nobody but the application-writter knows the meaning of the
strings (see my description of 'start' as noun or verb problem).

> It seems that most of the interface text is in the menus, and a little
> in SystemWindow titles, and the rest in contents of application
> specific text panes.

And in every other view framework (html generation, pdf generation, etc).
See my email about “translation in view or model?”.

> I say we play with this a little more and after we've more or less
> minimized the changes to application code, we roll it in for 3.7.

I agree with this. We have enough to play with in the current version of
Babel.

> Going
> for a translatable 3.7 release sounds great to me :-)

Same here!

> Daniel

Cheers,

Diego Gomez Deck
http://www.small-land.org