Dear Sugar and Virtaal Developers, It would be really wonderful if an activity developer would consider taking on the task of Sugarizing the Virtaal local PO edittng tool.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index It might make a nice hackfest project. While it is easy enough to install Virtaal on the Gnome side of the dual boot OLPC images (sudo yum install virtaal), this currently requires that the XO be unlocked with a developer's key. The Virtaal developers are the same people that give us Pootle, and they are a great group and have been very helpful to Sugar / OLPC L10n efforts. While I can't promise, I suspect that it might be possible to entice one or more of them to collaborate on this effort. Having a Sugarized Virtaal activity would allow it's use on SOAS and XO's not using a dual-boot image. The presence of such an activity is truly complementary to the show source improvements that have been made and would allow for small deployments (without great bandwidth) to truly bootstrap themselves into a fully localized UI. We've already heard reports of kids producing their own bilingual dictionaries on XO laptops, why not allow them to localize their own software. I think this would be a huge win for Sugar as a whole (and a boost for Virtaal as well) and I hope that someone would consider taking on this project that has a potentially huge impact on the Sugar user experience. This is genuinely about making it possible to allow full appropriation of our tools for local purposes. I know that there are other possible candidates for local PO editors, but I believe that Virtaal has a number of advantages over many of the other possible choices. Warmest Regards, cjl volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Poolte admin _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel