Update on desktop-effects

[Owen Taylor]

Thanks for all the positive responses on earlier mail.

I apologize for the new strings not appearing in transifex earlier; it's
my first time maintaining a project translated with transifex, so it
didn't occur to me that I was responsible for updating
desktop-effects.pot in git.

That has been done now, and the new strings are now showing up on:

https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/desktop-effects/master/

I did take advantage of my mistake to do a small string update - I added
a check for hardware OpenGL support, so there are a couple of new
strings related to that in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier.
(The total count of new strings is now 15.)

A question: 

My experience in GNOME is that translators don't like 'make update-po'
(msgmerge) being run by the maintainer. They'd rather do the merge
themselves when they are editing the translation.

On the other hand:

 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/FAQ#msgmerge

Says:

"Ideally, all POs should be msgmerged each time the POT is updated (ie.
by the developer)." 

So I went ahead and ran 'make update-po' and checked the result in. Was
that the right thing to do?

- Owen

[Piotr Drąg]

W dniu 01.09.2009 22:27, Owen Taylor pisze:
>  My experience in GNOME is that translators don't like 'make
> update-po'
>  (msgmerge) being run by the maintainer. They'd rather do the merge
>  themselves when they are editing the translation.
>  
[..]
>  "Ideally, all POs should be msgmerged each time the POT is updated (ie.
>  by the developer)."
>
>  So I went ahead and ran 'make update-po' and checked the result in. Was
>  that the right thing to do?
>  
That's because GNOME projects use intltool and desktop-effects is not.
We don't require Fedora Hosted projects to use intltool, but it's
possible and welcome. I've found some instructions how to do it here:

[1] 
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Localize%20using%2...

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[Gianluca Sforna]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Owen Taylor<otaylor(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>  Thanks for all the positive responses on earlier mail.
>
>  I apologize for the new strings not appearing in transifex earlier; it's
>  my first time maintaining a project translated with transifex, so it
>  didn't occur to me that I was responsible for updating
>  desktop-effects.pot in git.
>  
One question (not strictly related to desktop effects though): what
about the "_" char to designate the accelerator key on GUI buttons? I
guess translators can't change those but I'd prefer to double check
before proceeding.

TIA

G.


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[Piotr Drąg]

W dniu 02.09.2009 17:42, Gianluca Sforna pisze:
>  One question (not strictly related to desktop effects though): what
>  about the "_" char to designate the accelerator key on GUI buttons? I
>  guess translators can't change those but I'd prefer to double check
>  before proceeding.
>  
You can change those. Just pick any letter from US-keyboard which fits
to another accelerators (to avoid duplicates in GUI), and avoid only
characters like y, j, i because it won't be displayed on these.

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[Gianluca Sforna]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Piotr Drąg<piotrdrag(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>  You can change those. Just pick any letter from US-keyboard which
> fits
>  to another accelerators (to avoid duplicates in GUI), and avoid only
>  characters like y, j, i because it won't be displayed on these. 
Great, thanks for the info

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