New Language Translation - Luganda

[Kizito Birabwa]

 Hello Juraj,
Thanks for your excellent reply.That is very enlightening.Right now I am waiting for a response to my confirmation reply to the automatic message from kde-i18n-doc mailing list.
Regards,
Kizito

    On Monday, 14 October 2024 at 21:18:56 BST, Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec at mailo.com> wrote:  
 
 > Hello All,

Hello Kizito,

I mostly do programming, so I will try to answer from my observations.

> Way back when Falkon was still QupZilla 1.1.4 I had translated quite a
> lot of it into Luganda. Luganda being one of the languages used in
> Uganda.Life intervened.I would like to resume this work. - I still
> have all of the .po files from QupZilla 1.1.4. Are they a relevant
> starting point to resume work on the current state of Falkon?

The code changed a lot during this time, I recommend trying to find a way 
to sync it (the translation files) with latest code. I would contact 
someone who works with translations for more information.

>    - I note that Falkon now uses Qt instead of GTK

>From my knowledge Qupzilla was first written in Python using Qt and than 
reqritten In C++ also using Qt, later was moved to KDE and changed name 
to Falkon (still based on Qt).
Have I missed something?
Look of a GUI application can be deceiving since many desktop 
environments tweak toolkits to look the same / similar to their style.

>    - I have just finished translating qtbase (for Qt5) and LXQt into
> Luganda - I note that there is no team for Luganda/ Ganda in KDE. I
> have just joined the kde-i18n-doc mailing list I have had a look at
> the repositories and would like some guidance into how to make the
> .pot files appear.

I do not know what are the "*.pot" files for. What I do know is that 
Falkon translations are handled by KDE translation team and then synced 
into the git repository (the *.po files). So you NEED to go through KDE 
translation stuff to get your translations into Falkon.

To be honest, translations are mostly independend from writing code, so 
I know only a very little about the process. I can only point you to the 
wiki pages:

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/translation
https://l10n.kde.org/

I also recommend you to get in contact with other translators at KDE (or 
the team) and discuss it with them.


PS: While the translations are synced with the git repository, do not 
send Merge Requests there, they will be rejected. You need to go through 
the KDE translation stuff.

> Regards,
> Kizito

Best regards,
Juraj  
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