App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:06 am, Chris Howells wrote:
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> On Saturday 04 May 2002 3:52 pm, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > Because we cannot release untranslated applications with KDE?
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> > Sure we can.  KDE is under no obligation.
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> Let's plan the KDE 3.1 announcement then:
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> "Translated into nnn languages"[1]
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> <smallprint>"[1] -- Mostly, but we have so many duplicated apps in CVS the
> translators couldn't cope up"</smallprint>
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> Is that really going to look good?

It doesn't make any difference whether there are 4 CD burning applications or 
whether there is a "planetarium program, a hangman clone, an irc client and a 
golf game". Both are 4 programs and both will introduce new strings to 
translate. If translators don't have enough time to translate them then 
that's a problem in both cases but I don't see why this is solely a problem 
of application duplication.

Cheers,
Waldo
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