Hello everybody! I hope you all had a nice Christmas. As I don't see any progress regarding this topic for one month now - here and on Launchpad - I assume that this mailing list was the wrong place to ask. Would anyone please point me to the right go-to direction for Thunderbird bugs or in general broken translations in Ubuntu? Thanks a lot for your help!
Regards Rolando Gorgs Am Fr., 30. Nov. 2018 um 01:40 Uhr schrieb Rolando Gorgs < rolando.go...@gmail.com>: > Hello together, > > this is my first mail on this list because I don't want to escalate > 'small' things that could better be solved within launchpad, but I really > think this very long lasting bug should be brought to your attention: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/545778 > > Since I remember the localization of Lightning - the Thunderbird Calendar > - in Ubuntu is broken (better to say: not present). In Ubuntu wikis all > over the world the recommended (dirty) workaround has ever been to avoid > the official xul-ext-lightning package and instead install Lightning via > Thunderbird Addon functionality. > > This workaround often caused problems in the past because the Lightning > versions provided by Thunderbird Addons and the installed Thunderbird from > ubuntu packages didn't fit together. > > Some months ago the Thunderbird people finally decided to distribute > lightning (and its localization) as integrated part of their official > downloadable thunderbird install package. Because of this they stopped the > distribution of separate lightning packages via Addons. > > At this time there is no practical way to have Thunderbird + Lightning > completely translated in Ubuntu! The thunderbird localization of ubuntu > doesn't include lightning translation and xul-ext-lightning has no > localization too. The only way to get a working and localized Lightning is > to download the official Thunderbird package from www.thunderbird.net, > extract the installer and copy the included (translated) lightning addon > into the right sub folder of your own thunderbird. (And those steps have to > be repeated manually for every new Thunderbird/Lightning version!) > > Please (PLEASE) find a solution for this. The bugreport I linked above is > nearly nine years old but the problem itself exists even longer. I don't > see any progress here and I think this is due to misunderstanding and > confusion where the localization of lightning has to take place. In my > opinion the best solution would be to integrate lightning completely into > the ubuntu thunderbird package as the Thunderbird people did and then > provide the translation as part of thunderbird localization. But I'm > neither developer nor package maintainer. Perhaps a separate > xul-ext-lightning + separate localization is the better way. But please do > something! :-) > > Thanks for time and your attention! > > Golando Gorgs >
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