[Scummvm-devel] Improving translation support in ScummVM

[Max Horn]

Hi,

One thing I would like to remark regarding localization and the GUI layout: Please note that in 320x200 mode, even with English, everything is already highly crowded. This is a serious problem as soon as localized languages need even more space. No clever layouting engine can help us there simply are not enough pixels available. E.g. in the options dialog, we can squeeze in a few more pixels, but nothing major. So if languages need way more space for labels, we either need to start abbreviating a lot, or to split the option tabs into more, or whatever...

My point here is: Before we implement a way to allow alternate layouting for foreign languages (be it automatic, or with custom .stx file, or some other means), we should first investigate whether simply layout tweaks even are sufficient. And for that you should look at 320x200 mode (so 1x scaler, and aspect ratio correction *off*).

Bye,
Max