Pictures in the Installation Guide

[Noriko Mizumoto]

Ruediger Landmann さんは書きました:
> David Nalley wrote:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr at arrl.net> 
>> wrote:
>>  
>>> <big snip>
>>>
>>> A lot of the
>>> market is in places that don't speak English, so it would seem to be 
>>> very
>>> valuable to have the IG in particular full of pictures in the local
>>> language.
>>>
>>> Is this really nuts?  Is there a lower priced way to approach this?
>>>
>>> --McD
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>>
>> I'd largely agree that pictures are a bad idea, for the maintenance
>> issues. However Rudi has been putting in tons of work to make that
>> happen with this release. I don't envy the work, but provided we
>> retain Rudi or someone else willing to do the work I am ok with
>> keeping it.
>>   
> 
> Thanks for the kind words David :)
> 
> I (evidently!) agree that pictures are invaluable, for all the reasons 
> that John has raised. I invite anyone who hasn't seen the screenshots in 
> the new, expanded Installation Guide to check them out. The relevant 
> part of the English version starts here: 
> http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation%20Guide/en-US/html/sn-welcome-x86.html 

The number of screenshots (how many screenshots) will help L10N team to 
weigh the task.
The detailed steps to get there (each screen) will speed up translators 
to complete the task, it is usually more complicated task than general 
imagination.
Is any virtual environment to be provided? Otherwise each translator 
needs to download target Fedora and perform the install process on their 
own machine for this purpose.

noriko

> 
> 
> You can find versions in other languages by going to Section 7.10 of any 
> of the languages linked here: 
> http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation%20Guide/
> 
> Note that the installation process has not yet been completely localised 
> in every language, and has not yet been localised at all in a few.
> 
> The bad news is that there's no easy way to maintain these. Every time 
> L10N volunteers add another language, screenshots must be taken anew; 
> and every time an installation step changes, we need new screenshots in 
> 36 languages. Also, the screens contain version-specific artwork, 
> meaning that in a perfect world we would have to create a whole new set 
> with every Fedora release. I wasn't planning to do that though; and was 
> only planning to revise "version-obvious" screenshots like the Welcome 
> screen between versions. Note too that the Installation screen artwork 
> for F11 is not present in the PR and that we might need to talk to the 
> artwork team to get this moved up in the schedule in future versions.
> 
> A few weeks ago, David and I talked about a "Quick Install Guide", which 
> I'm really hoping we can have ready for F12. The QIG could, of course, 
> use the same images as the IG.
> 
> Comments, suggestions, and feedback are of course very welcome :)
> 
> Cheers
> Rudi
>