[libcalamares] Document recommended translation contexts
Jobs have specific contexts for their different strings. Many jobs (now) misuse prettyName() as a status message, although the existing fallback mechanism means that the name gets used as if it is a status message when the job does not define a description or status.
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* which of the jobs is "heavy" and which is not.
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virtual int getJobWeight() const;
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/** @brief The human-readable name of this job
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*
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* This should be a very short statement of what the job does.
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* For status and state information, see prettyStatusMessage().
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*
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* The job's name may be similar to the status message, but this is
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* a name, and should not be an active verb phrase. The translation
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* should use context @c @label .
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*
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* The name of the job is used as a **fallback** when the status
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* or descriptions are empty. If a job has no implementation of
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* those methods, it is OK to use other contexts, but it may look
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* strange in some places in the UI.
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virtual QString prettyName() const = 0;
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/** @brief a longer human-readable description of what the job will do
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*
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* This **may** be used by view steps to fill in the summary
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* module does so.
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*
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* The default implementation returns an empty string.
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*
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* The translation should use context @c @title .
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*/
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virtual QString prettyDescription() const;
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/** @brief A human-readable status for progress reporting
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* This is called from the JobQueue when progress is made, and should
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* return a not-too-long description of the job's status. This
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* is made visible in the progress bar of the execution view step.
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*
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* The job's status should say **what** the job is doing. It should be in
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* present active tense. Typically the translation uses tr() context
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* @c @status . See prettyName() for examples.
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*/
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virtual QString prettyStatusMessage() const;
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virtual JobResult exec() = 0;
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bool isEmergency() const { return m_emergency; }
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