[Kde-l10n-kn] Re: Fwd: [IMPORTANT] Preparing for KDE 4.6 (fourth nag)

shankar prasad prasad.mvs at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 07:52:04 CET 2010


By the way, as you said you can also simple gedit to translate .po files by
just inserting the Kannada translations in the msgstr field. Look at the
example below,

msgid "Name"
msgstr "ಹೆಸರು"

Also there is no online version of lokalize

hth

Shankar

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:15 PM, shankar prasad <prasad.mvs at gmail.com>wrote:

> For KDE or any project which has .po files, we use either lokalize or
> poedit. Even me too a regular user of GNOME and only uses few K
> applications. Though I use lokalize for translations, I recommend poedit for
> the new translators as it is simple and light weight.
>
> As of now we don't have any guidelines or standard terminology to use in
> translations, rather we use the earlier translations as translation data
> base, which also help us in translations. You can also the same.
>
> Mean while I am planning to standardise the frequently used words for
> localization across any platform.
>
> For any assistance and questions mail me.
>
> Since I felt it good to have such discussion ove mailing list, I am keeping
> kde-l10n-kn list in the cc.
>
> hth
> Shankar
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Yantra Shilpi <yantrashilpi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi Shankar,
>>
>> What tools do you guys use on KDE for translating? I'm not very familiar
>> with the KDE environment. I'm a regular GNOME user and I just use something
>> like IBUS on ubuntu to write out kannada text etc. Will that work in this
>> case?
>>
>> Also, is Lokalize a web tool for translation? Can I use that?
>>
>> YS.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/16/2010 11:09 PM, shankar prasad wrote:
>>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I really sorry for not introducing a new member to our team. Here is
>> Yantra Shilp, please welcome him to our l10n community!
>>
>> Yantra Shilpi, apart from we have two guys Vasudeva Kamath and Ashok Kumar
>> who are quite actively working on KDE l10n since more than a year along with
>> me.
>>
>> Yantra Shilpi,
>>
>> Can you work on below files and complete by  next Tuesday?:
>>
>> kcm_solid_actions.pot<http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/kdebase/kcm_solid_actions.pot>
>> kdontchangethehostname.pot<http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/kdebase/kdontchangethehostname.pot>
>> kfmclient.pot<http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/kdebase/kfmclient.pot>
>>
>> *Total:~70 strings*
>>
>> Happy translating!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Shankar
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, shankar prasad <prasad.mvs at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Sure then, will assign some files for you.
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Yantra Shilpi <yantrashilpi at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>  In that case why don't you go ahead and assign me a couple of files. I
>>>> would rather have a smaller work load since you'll be reviewing them anyway.
>>>> It will minimize time on both sides until I get up to speed.
>>>>
>>>> YS.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/16/2010 10:03 PM, shankar prasad wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yantra Shilpi,
>>>>
>>>> If you checkout all the files, it would be helpful to set up a
>>>> translation memory. Otherwise it is OK to just download the files which you
>>>> need to translate. But please let me on which file you wish to work on as
>>>> some other guys too working on KDE l10n, there are chances of duplication. I
>>>> request you to pick the files from kdebase module as that is the essential
>>>> one. Once you are done with the translations, please send me those files and
>>>> I will review before committing to svn repository.
>>>>
>>>> Mail me for any assistance.
>>>>
>>>> Shankar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Yantra Shilpi <yantrashilpi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Shankar,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I need to check out PO files? I've never worked in the KDE L10n
>>>>> system before. I'm not quite sure what the procedure is. I can probably pick
>>>>> up 1 or 2 files and have at them over the next couple of nights.
>>>>>
>>>>> YS.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/15/2010 10:15 PM, shankar prasad wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi team,
>>>>>
>>>>> Almost one month left complete the 482 strings for Kannada.
>>>>>
>>>>> Vasudev, Ashok Kumar, Sushruth Tendulkar or Yantrashilpi, any one would
>>>>> like join me in this task?
>>>>>
>>>>> Shankar
>>>>>
>>>>>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>>>>> Date: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:43 AM
>>>>> Subject: [IMPORTANT] Preparing for KDE 4.6 (fourth nag)
>>>>> To: KDE i18n-doc <kde-i18n-doc at kde.org>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, the beta 2 of KDE 4.6 has already been released and message
>>>>> hard
>>>>> freeze is 4 days ago so everything should be setting down now.
>>>>>
>>>>> As always http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/essential/ defines
>>>>> if your
>>>>> language is to be released with KDE 4.6 or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to
>>>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Release_Schedule the
>>>>> KDE 4.6 tag day is 19th of January (not much more than a month from
>>>>> now) so
>>>>> you should have things commited by 18th of January or earlier so
>>>>> scripty has
>>>>> the chance to merge .desktop files back.
>>>>>
>>>>> The following teams were in KDE 4.5 but at the moment don't meet the
>>>>> release
>>>>> criteria, the list has the team code and the messages missing to be
>>>>> translated
>>>>> to meet the release criteria
>>>>>
>>>>> eo - 742
>>>>> fy - 455
>>>>> he -  21
>>>>> hi - 154
>>>>> kn - 482
>>>>> ml - 711
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have not started working on 4.6 i think you should do it as soon
>>>>> as
>>>>> possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Albert
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
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