On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:40:32AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Do you mean these files: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/ > > ? > > > > I have no idea where are they generated from, they are indeed in the > > debian-installer sources (installer/build/boot/x86) but there does not seem > > to be a translation infraestructure for them. > > > > Searching, I've found there is already a translation for them at Ubuntu's > > Launchpad. Actually, they are translated already into some languages. For > > example: Spanish > > https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/debian-installer/+pots/help/es/+translate > > > > I have no idea how Ubuntu wraps those PO files into the help system used by > > syslinux. > > > > Christian, might it be something that could be improvied in the l10n/i18n of > > the Debian's installer? > > Hmmm, yes you're right. I've been wrong in my first reply to René in > this thread. The boot screens indeed belong to the D-I infrastructure. > > This is something I never really put deep attention too: how to i18n > the boot screens and, simultaneously, what mechanism to use in order > to allow users to switch from one language to another! > > Colin, if these things are i18n'ed in Ubuntu, how do you guys achieve > this and what do you use to allow users to switch to another language > for these boot screens help files? Could this be by using somethign > else than syslinux?
We use gfxboot (a set of extensions to various boot loaders including syslinux), which AFAIK Debian has chosen to reject in favour of syslinux's own menu system. I don't have the energy to make this my problem. *shrug* I am part-way through merging the system that we use to i18nise the boot screens, but generating the syslinux files correctly is a non-trivial job and I have not yet finished it. This would at least allow building custom images with translated boot screens. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
