On Thursday, 10. May 2012 at 22:17, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Jürgen, Dave, * > > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:56:25PM +0200, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > > On Wednesday, 9. May 2012 at 19:40, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > We know AOO website is not set up to be (easily?) localized, but we've > > > been doing our best with the guys on the Spanish mailing list to update > > > the Spanish NL site, mainly translating /adapting the main English site. > > > > > > I've been trying to translate the download page, you can find it at > > > http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/es/descargar/index.html > > > So far I see two (main) issues: > > > > > > * I had to make a copy of exceptions.css to adapt the cachedimages/*.png > > > URLs > > > > > > * we want the look & feel and the system detection, but not the > > > language detection: the user is on the Spanish site, the download must > > > be a Spanish package. I hacked this by adding a variable that is set > > > on the localized index.html via setLanguage("es"); then this variable > > > is used instead of navigator.language. I guess that instead of this, > > > the script code could detect if it is invoked from /download/index.html > > > or /$LANG/xxx/[.../]index..html > > > Is this solvable? Anyone with a better idea? > > > The page looks like: > > > http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/www-es-descargar.png > > > with this patch applied:: > > > http://people.apache.org/~arielch/patches/localize-download-index-html.patch > > > > > > > > > In a perfect situation, the site should be localizable with PO files, > > > and no need to hack stuff... but we are far from this situation. > > > > > > > > > but it is worth to think in this direction and focus future work to this as > > well. > > I like this and will support all efforts going in this direction. > > > > > It has been discussed on the list several times before the idea of > having a common set of pages in all NL sites, but the discussion didn't > have a conclusion. Now that AOO 3.4 is out, one can browse the NL sites, > and in several cases you get the feeling that you are in an abandoned > place; this will give our users a very bad idea of what's happening at > AOO. > > Just some examples: > > * http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/de/index.html last Neuigkeit: > 26.01.2011 OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 wurde veröffentlicht > > * if you look for mailing lists on the French site, you end up in > http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/fr/contact-forums.html > > * on the main site, there is some rather old content that now is > outdated and/or looks ugly in the new site layout > http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/product/index.html the screen shot > is from an older version > > http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/why/index.html looks rather ugly; > IIRC on the old site this page was displayed on a separated window, > now it looks rather unprofessional > > These examples show that there is a lot to update on the main site *and* > the NL sites; instead of multiplying the efforts, we should think of > a set-up where the web designers only have to design one site, > translators localize the site and volunteers update other localizable > content like screenshots. > > Following the main site, I'd think of a common set of pages containing > the basic information that should be provided to our users (folder names > could be localizable, see the directory structure in > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/es/ ) > > > /$LANG/index.html > div actionstatements - the actions list > div news - some news > > /$LANG/product/ - describing AOO applications > > /$LANG/why/ - what is AOO and why should you use it > > /$LANG/social/ - Social Networks > > /$LANG/support/ - Mailing lists, forum, documentation > > /$LANG/download/ - Downloads, Checksums > > /$LANG/participate/ - How to participate in AOO > > /$LANG/extensions/ - Extensions and templates information > > /$LANG/news/ - News, Announcements, Releases Notes > >
+1 for this proposal and thanks for picking this up... Juergen > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina > >
