Hi Aaron: This came up last night while looking at localization in your new UI App. One fellow from Europe had mentioned the lack of the App Central Site in his language. I imagine that managing one site and having copies of it in other languages would require either some sort of automated system so changes could be applied eithre in real-time or nightly or something like that. Trying to manage many sites manually would become time consuming and prone to versioning errors. Another thought discussed last night was to add a loop to your new UI App so that instead of a user having to convert one string at a time they could select a target language and hit a button to have all the UI elements and Strings converted automatically. That would be light years faster and cleaner than doing it manually, one line at a time as it now stands. Most of the logic should be there as applied to the Next Button which displays the Source String to be converted manually by the UI App user. Anyway, that's how it came up if I remember the discussion correctly.
Rick USA From: Aaron Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:17 AM Subject: App Central Localization (was Re: Package manager update question) 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 To: [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 -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team. -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team.
