On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:16:23PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:34:43 +0200
> "Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> > And the debian menu has supported translations since longer than .desktop
> > files even exist. It just has the strange idea that it might be easier
> > for translators to supply one file with all the translations of their
> > language instead of having to change a file in virtually every package
> > in the distribution to add their language.
>
> Are you talking about menu-l10n ?
>
> WOW! THREE translated locales. THREE out of several hundred
> supportable locales with .desktop files! (One of the three is only at
> 20% translated.) A popcon of 0.2% and not updated since Squeeze, so no
> end of missing applications and changed strings. How is that meant to
> keep pace with changes in the distribution?
[...]
And those translations can't be shared with upstream, so all that effort
is being duplicated.
Ben.
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