Hello Ilmari, *, I would be happy to help too, but I'm afraid, I have no much time even in the next 2 weeks at least.
But it would be great to see one of my pet bugs goes before 6.3 freeze arrives: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92825 What can I do (even with little time for now) for achieving this? BTW: How is your work with the shell script ongoing? Am 12.05.2019 um 19:42 schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas: > Currently most of the help content referring to menus is incorrect and > has been for years. One reason for this sad situation is that due to > ancient structural decisions, it is outrageously difficult to adapt > the content to changes. > > Here is the story in a nutshell: > > 1. The help system is architected. Repetition in content related to > menu items is avoided by clever structuring (hooray! the savings!) > 2. Content is added, references to menus spread far and wide > 3. Menu item locations are changed in a massive redesign operation, > making the help content obsolete > > The pain is mostly caused by assumptions that certain menus of certain > modules are identical. Impress and Draw are the most problematic in > this regard. > > Then we have the "how to access" pages with increasingly mixed > content. Consider the one for Edit menu, which now contains wonderful > entries like "Choose Edit - ImageMap in Writer and Calc or Tools - > ImageMap in Impress and Draw" or entries referring to a completely > different menu like "Choose Tools - Bibliography Database" and "Choose > View - Navigator". > https://helponline.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/shared/00/edit_menu.html > > > We need a system, where the help content concerning the location of > menu items is automatically generated from the menu bar definition > files. If shared information on menus is desired, it needs to be > produced automatically. > > The reason I add l10n list in Cc is that I want to raise awareness of > the current situation. Having incorrect information translated into > nearly 200 languages just multiplies the number of negative > experiences. Translators cannot fix this on the level of strings, it > needs to be dealt with structurally. It would be great, if members > from the stronger translation teams (de, fr, id...) would participate > in the current manual effort on fixing the menu help information. > > Here are a few patches from me that show, how the changes can be done: > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/68830/ > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/71436/ > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/71703/ > > If people get interested, I can offer assistance. > > Ilmari > -- Kindly Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Sophia Schröder www.libreoffice.org German Language Team Help Files Debugger IRC@freenode: SophiaS -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
