Change displayed metrics in language/component/project screens

[Jibec]

Describe the problem

As a community member of the Fedora community, I'd like to compare language by size.

I go to https://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages/ and see a bunch of stats. The unit are not really written, which makes it a little bit confusing.

Here is an example: can you tell what the 35% for French is referring to without having to guess?

You may get help from this tooltip:

Thanks a lot for this great piece of software

Describe the solution you'd like

Delete column: Unfinished characters (no idea which language may use such metrics) For each column, explicitly write the unit or use a "ⓘ" with a tooltip to tell the unit? For each tooltip, explicitly write the unit.

If you feel like to go further, I suggest to split the statistics in parts:

• User facing (in strings): translation progress
• Community effort (in words): translated words/untranslated words/total words
• Weblate specifics (in unit): Checks, Suggestions, comments

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

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[nijel]

• The unit is string unless other unit is stated.
• The unfinished characters is wanted, see #3827. For example, when translating Chinese, characters is the useful metric, not words.

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[Geeyun-JY3]

I have a solution: make the visibility of each column configurable. Users can choose whether to display each column. Word and character count for units(strings) may be useful in different languages, for example, character count may be more useful than word count for Chinese translators (BTW, how does Weblate count for units(strings)? Is the count based on source language or target language?). Word or characters count may be unnecessary for the translators of specific languages.

Actually, the visibility of most columns is configurable in Weblate 3.9.1. And this seems to be impossible after Weblate 3.10 according to the blog posts 1 and 2 (TBH I have not used Weblate 3.9.1. I am not quite sure about that. There is a Weblate instance still running Weblate 3.9.1: https://translate.pkp.sfu.ca/). Why this feature is removed?

In addition, it could be a solution for #7432.

[nijel]

The feature was removed in 2e7059c1c9d1abfb4276a5609a05b0e22c255155. The problem with checkboxes was responsiveness - the set was decided when loading the page. Also, the selection did not persist, so it was not really useful for this purpose.

[Geeyun-JY3]

If adding this feature back (in the way I mentioned above, no need to be responsive), I would prefer make it an option in the Preferences tab of the User profile.

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This issue has been put aside. It is currently unclear if it will ever be implemented as it seems to cover too narrow of a use case or doesn't seem to fit into Weblate.

Please try to clarify the use case or consider proposing something more generic to make it useful to more users.