On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Timothy Pearson < kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:18, Denis Prost denis.prost@wanadoo.fr
wrote:
Le 27/10/2010 09:31, Denis Prost a écrit :
Le 26/10/2010 18:30, Denis Prost a écrit :
Le 26/10/2010 17:51, Robert Xu a écrit :
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:32, Denis Prostdenis.prost@wanadoo.fr wrote: > > Le 25/10/2010 23:00, Robert Xu a écrit : >> >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:37, Denis Prostdenis.prost@wanadoo.fr >> wrote: >>> >>> Can the trinity developers take care of that ? >>> >> I think you should be able to compare with other po files and add >> it >> yourself :P >> I'll test for any breakage, if you desire. >> >> > I'm not sure I understand what you say. Do you mean adding new > strings > one > by one by hand in the po file ? > First, I might miss some new strings doing it that way. > Secondly, each trinity translater will have to do that manual > strings > adding > in his language po files. Seeing the number of languages trinity is > translated into, that seems to be a terrible waste of time. > A centralized process adding new strings to all po files in any > languages > would be a lot more efficient. I can't imagine there's no automatic > way > to > achieve this. But unfortunately I don't know how and don't have much > time to > investigate. I hope someone on the list has some knowledge about > that > topic. > hm, maybe Trinity could do something like Fedora does? https://translate.fedoraproject.org
I can't tell myself, but surely a clear translation process providing all instructions needed would help. (not forgetting that translators are just translators and may be very ignorant besides !). Regards,
Denis
Maybe what we're looking for is here :
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/kde-i18n-howto...
especially chapter 3 about Makefile.am. As far as I understand (I just checked quickly) It seems that "make messages" should be run periodically on the source tree by its administrator to update the pot files, followed by some command to merge the new pot files with the existing corresponding po files for each language (at present time, the po files seem to exist only in kde-i18n directory as tarballs : maybe if they existed as untared in svn, it would be more easy to do the merging and then for the translators to update them.
Regards,
Denis
As long as there is no centralized process to update the po files, I'm trying to do it myself, but I don't know enough of the development tools to achieve it. Maybe someone might help me : I'd like to run "make messages" in kdebase/kicker source directory, but there is no Makefile in it, only Makefile.am. How can I generate Makefile from it, what command should I run ? Thanks,
I recommend asking Timothy Pearson on how to do this. You can see this: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild and it'll tell you have to run make -f admin/Makefile.common.... Then from there I suppose you could look at Makefile.in and such.
-- later, Robert Xu
Sorry, I do not know how to do this either. I never was involved with the translation arm of KDE, so it's just something I never learned to do.
Tim
The obvious first step (after downloading and unpacking the sources, of
course) is to find where the original strings are, then translate those into whatever the target locale. You'd then need to follow whatever the format for the project is in saving the translated strings into their own locale files (generally speaking). I can't be specific to any particular project, it is simply an observation that most projects keep their language files organized in a separate directory inside the sources, so I can't be specific to KDE3.