Thanks, Christian. But language names don't need to be translated, they already are all in the sdf file. Only the "This is the" and "languagepack installer." parts of that sentence need to be translated. I know, because I translated all that language names into Slovenian ;)
So I would still prefer the second option - if the language pack would be in English and the language of the languagepack. As far as the launchers go, I don't have opinion yet, would need to try both possibilities to have one. Will anyone else on this list vote about these options? Or will this be voted on the porting meeting? Otherwise our two votes will be the deciding ones ... :) Thanks, m. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Christian Lohmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, *, > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:16:42PM +0100, Martin Srebotnjak wrote: > > While mentioning resources, what was the decision regarding > > localization of the language packs for Mac? If there was any? Should > > we start translating? Or will this be incorporated into sdf/gsi (i.e. > > po) files? > > Any translations (if there are any) will be part of the regular > translation mechanism of OOo - i.e. the strings would be put in some sdf > file and translators then can convert to po or any other format of their > choice. > > But as Shaun correctly wrote: I didn't recieve any further feedback. > > Last time I uploaded test-languagepacks they were only downloaded > twice, nobody add comments to the spec in the wiki either, people seem > to not care, and then there was exams season, so I didn't push it myself... > > I'm still undecided what the best way to go is. > > It is only clear that it won't be possible to provide a langaugepack > installer that has all translations and a string like "This is the > French/German/Japanese languagepack installer". (since that would > require all translators to translate every language name, and the > packaging process of the languagepack would have to choose different > strings for all of the languagepacks, even it the installer was only > english, it would have to be changed for each language (this is way too > much effort for such little gain) > > So that leaves the following choices: > * Only english, no translations > * English and langauge of the languagepack > * only langauge of the languagepack > > Not sure whether to include all languages makes sense at all, that's why > it is not listed. > > For the two language options, there's the choice between > * two seperate icons/launchers > * one launcher, providing two buttons (one for english, one for > $language) > > But as these points are not clear yet, it doesn't make sense to start > translating. > Even if the way was clear, the english stings/the dialogs themselves > have not been approved either. > > You're basically the only one who commented on the specification, the > dialogs themselves (thanks for that). > > I guess I should take the lack of feedback as "it's acceptable how it is > now" and just go on with it... > > ciao > Christian > -- > NP: nichts > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
