Thoughts about moving translation call to inside gui template

[kassah]

As I have been exploring making a new theme, I noticed that I am restricted to strings that are passed to the smarty template.

I'm just pondering if you'd be open to moving the tr("string") call from the PHP files into the templates themselves (making a callback in the pTemplate engine for dealing with it).

I'd be happy to make up the bug & patch for it, just want to check into the community for 1. would the developers like such a thing 2. would this overwhelmingly screw up those who already made custom templates?

Thanks,
Will

Edit: Changed question to apply to pTemplate per sci2tech's response below.