Pictures in the Installation Guide
Noriko Mizumoto
noriko at redhat.com
Wed May 6 06:10:16 UTC 2009
Ruediger Landmann さんは書きました:
> Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
>> The number of screenshots (how many screenshots) will help L10N team
>> to weigh the task.
> There are 68 screenshots in the Installation Guide
>> 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.
>>
>
> Actually, it's even more complicated than that. Remember that this is
> the *installation* process we're documenting here, so the screenshots
> need to be taken on a different machine (real or virtual) from the one
> on which you're performing the installation process. You therefore
> either need to install Fedora on one machine while controlling the
> installation process and taking screenshots with a second machine (that
> is, performing a VNC installation) or install Fedora on a virtual
> machine (I use Sun VirtualBox for this).
>
> Given the complexity of organising this, it was just easier for me to
> take the screenshots in each language myself. If you look at the test
> builds available here:
> http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation%20Guide/ you will see
> that each language has its own set of screenshots (with the exception of
> a few languages where the installation process itself has not been
> localised yet -- for example, Latvian -- which use the English
> screenshots).
>
> Additionally, I'm aware that this is a very big book and a very
> demanding one for translators. I hope that taking care of the
> screenshots is at least one little thing that I can do to make their
> lives easier :)
OH... I misunderstood that this guide is seeking some help from
translators (prob because it was used to be redhat translators task for
rhel install guide). Now it sounds excellent. Thanks a lot!
noriko
>
> Cheers
> Ruediger
>
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