[Gimp-developer] What's with the appended %s?

[Christian Rose]

Recently many messages in gimp have been changed to append "  %s", like
in this example:

#: app/tools/transform_options.c:223
#, c-format
msgid "Keep Height  %s"

The %s seems to be filled in with the return value of a call to
gimp_get_mod_name_control ().

What's the purpose of these changes to the translatable messages? Are
the ordering of the %s, or the amount of whitespace used, supposed to
change with the translations? If they aren't, perhaps moving these %s
outside the gettext calls should be considered.


Christian