Standardize 'Show' labels to manifest fields

[Trenly]

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  • Resolves Update "show" output #1690

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[denelon]

@Trenly

We had a discussion internally a while back related to the labels. Part of the reason we were exposing the exact "YAML" key values is because we weren't localizing the titles. I'm not sure how well this plays from a localization perspective.

Thoughts?

[Trenly]

@Trenly

We had a discussion internally a while back related to the labels. Part of the reason we were exposing the exact "YAML" key values is because we weren't localizing the titles. I'm not sure how well this plays from a localization perspective.

Thoughts?

Hmmm. I'm not sure either. I think from a contributor perspective, I would rather see exact YAML keys (spaces added) as it provides simpler correlation between fields. From a user perspective, I would want the fields to be localized so I could understand what each of them were.

However, I would say that there is a fairly clear link between the Yaml keys and the meaning of the key. From an english-First perspective, I don't see any reason not to update the keys. From a localized perspective, I can see how it could make the localization more difficult to understand.

[denelon]

I wonder how "jarring" the experience would be for individuals to see localized labels and en-US descriptions when the package metadata hasn't been localized.

I expect that's the experience they are dealing with today.

Given the manifest keys are en-US based and we would display the localized values mixed with en-US values it's probably already an inconsistent experience.

Maybe localizing the titles would improve the experience for manifests with localizations. We've got a feature on wingetcreate to make localizing metadata easier:

• Simplify localization for existing packages winget-create#78

I think I'm good going down the path of localizing the titles. @JohnMcPMS thoughts?

[JohnMcPMS]

The "titles"? As in the field name parts in show? I think they already are being localized.

winget-cli/Localization/Resources/de-DE/winget.resw

Lines 1033 to 1035 in a56372b

	<data name="ShowLabelInstallerLocale" xml:space="preserve">
	<value>Gebietsschema:</value>
	</data>

[yao-msft]

I think last time we discussed that we would de-localize the manifest keys for show, for scenarios Demitrius mentioned. Are we ok not doing that now?

[denelon]

If they are already localized, yes. The changes we're making here should be fine. There may be better renditions for things like "URL" as opposed to "Url" where the casing is unique to YAML/JSON styles.

[JohnMcPMS]

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[JohnMcPMS]

Not that a build is needed... just following protocol.