<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/1/22, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <<a href="mailto:thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de">thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday 20 January 2007 22:15, I. Soumpasis wrote:<br>> Today I spoke with the ubuntu-gr team to ask them about the translation of<br>> RKWard and how is to be handled, because feisty already has the 0.4.2 v<br>
> which has the greek translation. They told me that they use rosseta and<br>> they checked for me if there is something there and there is not. So, if I<br>> got it right people, who use the package from their distro can not have a
<br>> translated version. They also told me that all distros take the translation<br>> from rosseta.<br><br>I certainly hope, the translations are still available in ubuntu. They do get<br>shipped with the package (identical to the debian package), and unless ubuntu
<br>does some silly extra stuff to break the translation mechanism, they should<br>work.<br>There is no el.po or rkward.pot file in the binary package. The chain of<br>translation files is this:<br>1) Extract all messages from sources >
rkward.pot<br>2) Translate rkward.pot to language XX > XX.po<br>3) Compile XX.po into message catalog > XX.gmo<br>4) install XX.gmo > /usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/rkward.mo (the exact<br>location may differ acorss distributions)
<br>Only that last file is included in the binary package.<br><br>Could somebody using Ubuntu check, whether running<br>KDE_LANG=el rkward<br>starts rkward with greek translation alright?</blockquote><div><br>I will ask somebody to try it. I hope somebody will do me the favor. If it is ok then no need to go to rosseta.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> So they asked if we want to use rosseta for translations. The good point is
<br>> that more people could help in translations and that more people will learn<br>> about rkward. One bad point I found trying to learn the system is that<br>> there were only .pot files (in new gnome) and when I asked where is the
<br>> el.po file so to make the corrections and additions they told me that there<br>> is nothing like this, meaning I have to write everything again. (However I<br>> do not know how the system works and really do not know the pros and cons).
<br><br>I'm somewhat reluctant to switch to rosetta at this point of time. Sure,<br>having to import the translated .po files back into SVN for every update is a<br>slight overhead. However, I'm not sure, it's less than registering with yet
<br>another service, uploading the .pot there, and downloading the .po s again,<br>later.<br>If translators feel, using rosetta would be a good idea, I'm certainly willing<br>to give it a try (hoping it would be possible somehow to also upload the
<br>pre-existing translations), but personally I don't see the need for this,<br>ATM.</blockquote><div><br>I am used in this way and I did not like the way rosseta treats translations, having to translate the .pot file and not the new .po.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Regards<br>Thomas</blockquote><div><br>Regards<br>Ilias <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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