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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello Juraj,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for your excellent reply.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That is very enlightening.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Right now I am waiting for a response to my confirmation reply to the automatic message from <span>kde-i18n-doc mailing list.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Regards,</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Kizito<br></span></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, 14 October 2024 at 21:18:56 BST, Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec@mailo.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">> Hello All,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hello Kizito,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I mostly do programming, so I will try to answer from my observations.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Way back when Falkon was still QupZilla 1.1.4 I had translated quite a<br clear="none">> lot of it into Luganda. Luganda being one of the languages used in<br clear="none">> Uganda.Life intervened.I would like to resume this work. - I still<br clear="none">> have all of the .po files from QupZilla 1.1.4. Are they a relevant<br clear="none">> starting point to resume work on the current state of Falkon?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The code changed a lot during this time, I recommend trying to find a way <br clear="none">to sync it (the translation files) with latest code. I would contact <br clear="none">someone who works with translations for more information.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - I note that Falkon now uses Qt instead of GTK<br clear="none"><br clear="none">From my knowledge Qupzilla was first written in Python using Qt and than <br clear="none">reqritten In C++ also using Qt, later was moved to KDE and changed name <br clear="none">to Falkon (still based on Qt).<br clear="none">Have I missed something?<br clear="none">Look of a GUI application can be deceiving since many desktop <br clear="none">environments tweak toolkits to look the same / similar to their style.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - I have just finished translating qtbase (for Qt5) and LXQt into<br clear="none">> Luganda - I note that there is no team for Luganda/ Ganda in KDE. I<br clear="none">> have just joined the kde-i18n-doc mailing list I have had a look at<br clear="none">> the repositories and would like some guidance into how to make the<br clear="none">> .pot files appear.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I do not know what are the "*.pot" files for. What I do know is that <br clear="none">Falkon translations are handled by KDE translation team and then synced <br clear="none">into the git repository (the *.po files). So you NEED to go through KDE <br clear="none">translation stuff to get your translations into Falkon.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">To be honest, translations are mostly independend from writing code, so <br clear="none">I know only a very little about the process. I can only point you to the <br clear="none">wiki pages:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/translation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/translation</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://l10n.kde.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://l10n.kde.org/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I also recommend you to get in contact with other translators at KDE (or <br clear="none">the team) and discuss it with them.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">PS: While the translations are synced with the git repository, do not <br clear="none">send Merge Requests there, they will be rejected. You need to go through <br clear="none">the KDE translation stuff.<div class="ydpdd73dcb1yqt2580632081" id="ydpdd73dcb1yqtfd14044"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Regards,<br clear="none">> Kizito</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best regards,<br clear="none">Juraj</div></div>
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