[Kbabel] browsing translation database

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Sobota 23 Október 2004 08:35 Janusz S. Bień napísal:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004  Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky at kde.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > However, with the search panel I am unable to find any word occuring
> > > in the scanned file. Moreover, in KBabel the menu item "Dictionary
> > > edit" is empty.
> >
> > This is generic and no KBabelDict module provides possibility to edit the
> > dictionary - that's why the menu is empty.
>
> Thank you very much for your answer.
>
> > > What am I doing wrong? is it possible to browse the dictionary entry
> > > by entry?
> >
> > Unfortunatelly not, because ATM it would be a debugging option only.
> > There is no real use case AFAICS. Or do you have one except for a
> > debugging the database?
>
> I am not a translator, but I am familiar with several commercial
> Computer Aided Translation systems and all of them allow to browse the
> dictionary. I think that for a translator which is about to start
> using a dictionary it is really useful to have a look at its content,
> at least to satisfy the natural curiosity.

Hmm, I have to implement it then :(

>
> > Did you try to search in KBabelDict for some texts you are sure were in
> > the scanned file?
>
> My first experiments were rather chaotic and today I tried to be more
> systematic.
>
> I tried to configure kBabel according to the instruction for Polish
> translators at
>
>         http://kdei18n-pl.sourceforge.net/slowniki.php
>
> I'v set "Path to Compendium File" as
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/kdei18n-pl/slowni
>k/slownik.po?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
>
> and got
>
>         Error while trying to read file for PO Compendium module:
>
> with some error messages on the console.
>
> Then I noticed that there is a redicrection from the above mentioned
> address to
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/kdei18n-pl/slownik/slownik
>.po?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
>
> So I set "Path to Compendium File" to this address and got again
>
>         Error while trying to read file for PO Compendium module:
>

The problem is the MIME type of the remote PO file is not recognized as PO, so 
no plugin is found. That's why downloading first and using the local copy 
should work better.

> Then I donloaded the file `slownik.po' and set "Path to Compendium
> File" to it using "Open file dialog". I got no reaction to "Apply" and
> later to "Find Text" -> "PO Compendium".
>
> Moerover, I get now no reaction even when I set "Path to Compendium
> File" to the URLs given above.

How did you try to activate search? Keyboard shortcuts do not work ATM :(

>
> These experiments has been done under IceWM. I tried to repeat them
> under KDE (HD installation of Knoppix 3.6). However, I got no reaction
> to setting "Path to Compendium File" from the very beginning. I
> noticed also a very strange thing: I get the message
>
>         [1]+  Done                    kbabel

This is because there is always a single KBabel process running. So it forks 
to detach after start and the original process is finished.

Stano