Minimum translation percentage for frameworks release

[David Gil Oliva]

Hi!

El 31/07/2014 20:57, "Alexander Potashev" <aspotashev at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> 2014-07-31 21:32 GMT+04:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> > So you have an application, let's say VLC that is using some KDE
framework,
> > now VLC itself is in catalan at 100%, but that KDE framework is in
catalan
> > only at 25%.
> >
> > Why would ever someone want not to have those 25% of strings? I.e. when
would
> > someone decide not to get as many translations as possible, taking into
> > account the framework is most probably the smallest part of visible
messages?
>
> Albert,
>
> Your argument is convincing for large enough applications like VLC.
>
> But there is still a reason why someone (including me) would prefer
> VLC 100% translated and frameworks without translation over usage of
> 25% translated frameworks. Say, the kio framework is 25% translated
> and those translations cover only half of the file dialog, so you will
> see half of messages in English and the others translated in the same
> dialog.

I know many people that would be happy understanding that half of the
dialog (and not happy seeing the whole dialog in English). But this is only
my opinion, I'm not translating any program.

Cheers,

David Gil

If you turn off translations this framework, the dialog will
> look better: a whole dialog in English looks better than English and
> native strings mixed up, IMO. A mix like this might be really annoying
> when a GUI label is translated and its name is also mentioned in some
> "what's this" or tooltip text which is in English: the user will have
> to translate in their mind what is said in the tooltip and then try to
> find the GUI control that looks appropriate.
>
> The same problem with mixing translated and English messages won't
> arise (that badly) when you disable frameworks' translations, because
> most frameworks (if not every) are responsible for some self-contained
> parts of UI.
>
> --
> Alexander Potashev
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