I'm not sure where this discussion stemmed from, but App Central is
currently available in several languages: English, Polish, Turkish, and
German. There's even a prominent "Change Language" link. Anyone is free
to provide localizations in any other language. In addition, every app
details page provide the ability to choose various languages, and
localize strings in those languages for app descriptions, and changes.
So what am I missing?
Aaron
On 5/9/2011 10:35 AM, David wrote:
Well, funny you Aaron brought up the question, if App Central is
lacking? And that is today? Why I say its funny, is because we had a
bit of a discussion last night, in Chip's scripting class. One thing,
that definately is lacking, is a multilingual website. GW ask the app
developers to make their apps as multilingual as possible, but what
good is that? After uploading the app to the web, the user will have
to read and understand a pretty good chunk of English, so as to even
find the app he might want to install on his computer.
I know, that some - if not all - of your abroad, Non-English, dealers
do have their local websites. And they might be in the local language.
Yet, they don't hold any translated version of app central. Then, they
go ahead, and upload an app to the official app central. Just have a
look at app central as it stands today, and you will find at least
three apps up there, with some rather strange sounding names. At
least, when you let Eloquence try to read Polish app-names, with the
English voice. And, there is more local scripts, that a local dealer
might want to maintain; or that could be developed so as to meet local
needs for a region. That is when the app might want to check for
updates other places than App central.
Back to the internationalization. That, at least, is an area, where
app central is greatly lacking. If you ask the app developers to go
through all the 'hazzle' of having their apps translated; then why
don't you take the lead? With the risk of sounding critical, which was
not my intention, I just summed up what came out of the discussion
last night. Would be great, to hear what good reasons GW would have
for their choice on leaving app central little accessible for the
users who are not strong in English.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Aaron Smith <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, May 09, 2011 3:19 PM
*Subject:* Re: Package manager update question
On 5/9/2011 8:49 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
It's not so much that App Central is lacking as it is some
certain organizations do not want any scripts (encrypted or not)
outside of their own locations.
In that case, an app would need to handle all of the updating
itself, as you indicated.
Aaron
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