On 9/8/06, Andreas Røsdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like some help with properly i18n'ing an optional, external > library used in gnome-games, and would also like to involve the > translators.
To those who don't know, it means adding real game server support, and people from different countries can play together once they have account on that server. Not just able to play with people within the same LAN (zeroconf based). My answer at the bottom.... > The library ggz-gtk is used by gnome-games in the CVS HEAD branch now. > However, it is not translated to more than a few languages, which could > become a problem when it is used in GNOME. I therefore got suggestions to > include the .pot file in gnome-games, to allow GNOME translators to > translate it. The .pot files contains about two hundered strings, so the > worm involved is not that large. The new translations will be merged back > to ggz-gtk eventually. > > I have threrefore added a note to translators about this in > po/README.TRANSLATORS, added po/ggz-gtk.pot which contains the strings to > be translated, and started modifying po/Makefile.in.in.own to concatenate > ggz-gtk.pot with the other strings in gnome-games. > > What I would like is first some help reviewing po/Makefile.in.in.own > It concatenates the two pot files here: > msgcat -s $(GETTEXT_PACKAGE).pot $(EXTRA_POT) -o $(GETTEXT_PACKAGE).pot > However, I have noticed that it doe snot always work, since new > translations committed to gnome-games do not contain the new strings from > GGZ. I suppose the msgcat statement should be used other places in the > makefiles as well. Any suggestions? > > Also, I hope that most translators now have been informed about the akward > solution, and have understanding for the fact that I am only trying to > make the i18n better, evern though the actual implementation is not very > pretty. :) IMHO this is only an internim solution, not a permanent one, as you would spend a lot of time syncing translation from ggz library back and forth. Besides, many gnome translators get the pot/po file from l10n-status.gnome.org, which (AFAIK) simply invoke intltool-update to generate the pot/po files, thus your maneuver of pot file would be all gone. AFAIK they have always been managing translation on their own in the past, so in short term asking GNOME translators to help translating is indeed a quick way to get it localized; however I guess GGZ people may also need a long term managing of the translations, otherwise latecomers may not be able to see their translation show up inside ggz library. One more thing, is including the translation inside gnome-games enough to have localized ggz library? Should ggz library be modified in order to fetch translation from gnome-games text domain, or I'm wrong? Abel > > - Andreas > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > -- Abel Cheung (GPG Key: 0xC67186FF) Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF -------------------------------------------------------------------- * GNOME Hong Kong - http://www.gnome.hk/ * Opensource Application Knowledge Assoc. - http://oaka.org/ * My own cave: http://me.abelcheung.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
