[RkWard-devel] Translations

[I. Soumpasis]

Ok. I tested it myself using a live cd of the developing version of ubuntu.
Installed RKWard tried with greek and it works. So it is ok.

Regards
Ilias


2007/1/22, I. Soumpasis <nono.231 at gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> 2007/1/22, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <
> thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>:
> >
> > On Saturday 20 January 2007 22:15, I. Soumpasis wrote:
> > > Today I spoke with the ubuntu-gr team to ask them about the
> > translation of
> > > RKWard and how is to be handled, because feisty already has the 0.4.2v
> > > which has the greek translation. They told me that they use rosseta
> > and
> > > they checked for me if there is something there and there is not. So,
> > if I
> > > got it right people, who use the package from their distro can not
> > have a
> > > translated version. They also told me that all distros take the
> > translation
> > > from rosseta.
> >
> > I certainly hope, the translations are still available in ubuntu. They
> > do get
> > shipped with the package (identical to the debian package), and unless
> > ubuntu
> > does some silly extra stuff to break the translation mechanism, they
> > should
> > work.
> > There is no el.po or rkward.pot file in the binary package. The chain of
> > translation files is this:
> > 1) Extract all messages from sources > rkward.pot
> > 2) Translate rkward.pot to language XX > XX.po
> > 3) Compile XX.po into message catalog > XX.gmo
> > 4) install XX.gmo > /usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/rkward.mo (the
> > exact
> > location may differ acorss distributions)
> > Only that last file is included in the binary package.
> >
> > Could somebody using Ubuntu check, whether running
> > KDE_LANG=el rkward
> > starts rkward with greek translation alright?
>
>
> I will ask somebody to  try it. I hope somebody will do me the favor. If
> it is ok then no need to go to rosseta.
>
> > So they asked if we want to use rosseta for translations. The good point
> > is
> > > that more people could help in translations and that more people will
> > learn
> > > about rkward. One bad point I found trying to learn the system is that
> > > there were only .pot files (in new gnome) and when I asked where is
> > the
> > > el.po file so to make the corrections and additions they told me that
> > there
> > > is nothing like this, meaning I have to write everything again.
> > (However I
> > > do not know how the system works and really do not know the pros and
> > cons).
> >
> > I'm somewhat reluctant to switch to rosetta at this point of time. Sure,
> > having to import the translated .po files back into SVN for every update
> > is a
> > slight overhead. However, I'm not sure, it's less than registering with
> > yet
> > another service, uploading the .pot there, and downloading the .po s
> > again,
> > later.
> > If translators feel, using rosetta would be a good idea, I'm certainly
> > willing
> > to give it a try (hoping it would be possible somehow to also upload the
> >
> > pre-existing translations), but personally I don't see the need for
> > this,
> > ATM.
>
>
> I am used in this way and I did not like the way rosseta treats
> translations, having to translate the .pot file and not the new .po.
>
> Regards
> > Thomas
>
>
> Regards
> Ilias
>
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