Although I foresee the counterarguments that will be
provided in
this regard, I want to make the following comment.
The general response of any non-English-speaking low/medium level
user, but usually unwelcome in English-speaking dev lists, is that
translations should be in the main package or be a one of its
dependences or at least a "recommend" (in the Debian package
system jargon), because non-English-speaking novices find very
frustrating to want to install a software (p. eg. k3b or
kaffeine), find and install the package, and find it only in
English - however much we may seem very normal to have to look for
a additional package xxx-i18n or xxx-l10n or xxx-i18n-es or xxx-
l10n-es (as Spanish example).
As I comment and report as many bugs, should be given much more
importance to translations in TDE. The 1232 bug is an example of
how the lack of translation can make a desktop environment as
unusable for non-English-speaking users.
Cheer and thanks for all
I think i18n will receive attention after R14.0.0. At that time,
please be vocal to help ensure that happens. :)
Darrell