On 01/08/11 20:55, Sveinn í Felli wrote: > Þann mán 1.ágú 2011 15:38, skrifaði Mikel Pascual - Akaita: >> Hi, >> >> I checked about a dozen languages, and almost everybody translates >> "%PRODUCTNAME Writer" (for example) as "%PRODUCTNAME Writer". >> >> And I'm wondering... why is that so? >> Is that a directive from the steering comittee? >> >> I guess that most people opens LibO via "right-click-->new...", double >> clicking a doc/spreadsheet/... , or even using the LibreOffice link (I >> mean, >> the startscreen with link to the products, etc). >> Anyway, the applications menu is left in english, and those (very little) >> icons are not that well-know. >> >> >> I think having those names translated should be a must. Keeping them in >> english just puts up an entry-barrier for people who don't know english >> (that's one of the reasons to have translations, isn't it?). >> So, could we translate those names? >> > > I'd say that this is up to each translation team to decide, most have > decided not to translate those application names. > > Maybe because if they do, they would have to decide upon good > translations of those names, to coordinate their usage through several > translation domaines (in LibreOffice, Launchpad, GNOME, KDE, etc), to > keep up pace in translating helpcontent, manuals and bunch of other > stuff for your users - so they can access information about these > applications under their new (translated) name. > > So maybe it's mostly question about manpower... ;-) > > Best regards, > Sveinn í Felli > >
Why do we have this discussion at all? The product names are part of the branding of the trademark and shouldn't be tampered with. Mikel, I suspect you of being pretty new to this game... – Olav -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
