Murray Cumming schrieb: > I think having 5 pages translated, and kept up to date, would be wonderful. > However, I think the entire site would be translated in many languages if > we made it possible. The GNOME translation team are amazing. They seem to > love translating applications, release notes, documentation, anything that > we even vaguely make available for translation. >
Although the quality is not very high - and sometimes I think its better to have good content in its original language than a bad or outdated translation. What I try to say is that its not always good to translate. I was very disappointed of the german translation of the 2.24 release notes for example. I think its important to translate some basic pages currently the only page describing GNOME is http://www.gnome.org/about/ - and there I rather think more work should go into the original page(s). One needs to explain what GNOME is - give more screenshots and recorded sessions - so people can see how GNOME works and looks. And then out of the GNOME intro there should be links to pages about some projects like Epiphany, Gnumeric, Abiword - one should also talk about working with OO.org or Firefox on GNOME. I think the real task is to develop content that makes sense and is appealing. Surrounded by a nice design and a good technical platform. > > Note that the translation feature is new (and not finished, I believe). > However, this is fairly understandable because no open-source CMS in the > world seems to offer this feature, certainly not via .po files. But > that's not what's causing difficulties now. > Sure, Drupal uses .po files for translations since ages. That was one of the reasons for selecting Drupal on my own websites. You can import and export po files - so somebody can work on his own Drupal, translate stuff and then export. I never understood why people thought Drupal was bad in i18n stuff. Unless I still do not get the point. See also http://drupal.org/contribute/translations , http://drupal.org/node/275705 Please tell me its not that nobody looked at the actual Drupal core features before dismissing it for not providing translation possibilities? Regards, Thilo _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
