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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