[haiku] Re: Haiku Translation Assistant ready for action
- From: "Travis D. Reed" <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:38:26 -0600
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> 1 - When you move out of a text box, I assume the little round thing (which
> makes the screen move as well, if you're scrolling for example (try it!). It
> seems like it's inside a table cell and resizes it when it appears and
> disappears) means it's saving them (else I've just translated styled edit
> for nothing).
>
This is the Drupal throbber. I know what you're talking about, and it's
annoying, but I'm not prepared to work on that right away. I'll keep it in
mind, though.
> 2 - Is it possible for it to show the text in the text boxes in a different
> color if the string is untranslated (and by such equal to the original text)
> ?
>
Done and done! There's a little check box if you want to confirm that a
translation is accurate even though it seems untranslated.
> 3 - Is it possible for a developer to pick which languages he wants't to
> work with? There are a gazillion of languages in the textbox, and I'll only
> do European Portuguese (*), yet I still need to go fish for it on the combo
> list.
>
Yes. See the note I wrote on the front page. (Just for you!) I'm doing a
similar thing for the program box.
> 3 1/2 aka (*) - Can you add a Brazillian Portuguese language? There were at
> least two people interested in doing it, and since it's a bit different from
> European Portuguese, I believe it should be done. Of course, this is always
> open to discussion (as are the rest of my "quirks").
>
This is *extremely* important, but PulkoMandy must work out the details of
this in the LocaleKit. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be handled.
> 4 (aesthetic) - The "My Recent" and "Recent Posts" aren't used by anything
> are they?
>
Yes, the idea is that when a developer uploads a default catalog, they
become the manager of a group. Translators join these groups and send
messages (i.e. posts) in the groups to tell the manager to upload to SVN,
fix a bug, etc.
> 5 - There should be an English language as well. I say this because if a
> non-English developer develops something that becomes part of Haiku, or if
> HTA starts to accept 3rd party apps, there may be cases where the App is not
> originally written in English. Also the English sentences themselves
> sometimes have some errors or are not clear as they could be.
>
HTA is completely agnostic to the default catalog's language. :)
> 5 - It would be great if there was a way of showing graphically where the
> string will appear, but that would probably put some strain the the servers.
>
S. Zharski's wiki has this feature, and it's *very* nice. Next top
priority. Screenshots.
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Travis D. Reed
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Travis D. Reed <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Best guessing and notification of no translation works now! :) Very cool!
> --
> Travis D. Reed
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> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Travis D. Reed <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Ugh! Not fingerprint calculation! :(
>> --
>> Travis D. Reed
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>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM, PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On dialects: I have to defer to PulkoMandy here. I'm not exactly sure
>>>> how
>>>> this would work. For en_UK.catkeys, only a few strings would be needed:
>>>> "Colour," for instance. No need in duplicating strings.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That should work... the code is commented for some reason.
>>> The problem is you'll have to compute the fingerprint for the incomplete
>>> catkeys file.
>>>
>>> The locale kit is designed to have a fallback system as follow :
>>>
>>> Loading catalogs :
>>> - It trys the first language in your preference set (lets say en_UK)
>>> - If found, it loads it, if not, it trys the superset (en, for example)
>>> - If not, it moves on to the next language and try again
>>>
>>> Getting a string
>>> - It trys the loaded catalog (en_UK)
>>> - If not found, it trys the parent (en)
>>> - It crawl up to the top (there may be some other levels like
>>> en_UK_oxford, or whatever. But I hope we won't need that.)
>>> -If nothing else works, it fallbacks to the string in the sourcecode.
>>>
>>> So having incomplete catalogs should be fine.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
>>> http://pulkomandy.ath.cx
>>>
>>>
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