Le lundi 22 décembre 2014 à 15:36 +0100, Sophie a écrit :
> Hi,
> Le 22/12/2014 15:27, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :> Le lundi 22 décembre
> 2014 à 15:13 +0100, Sophie a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >> Le 22/12/2014 15:08, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit :
> >>> Hello Sophie,
> >>>
> >>> Le 22/12/2014 14:37, Sophie a écrit :
> >>>> Yes and if you read the announcement or the discussions on the lists,
> >>>> you have noticed that it's a contest for en_US templates only.
> >>>
> >>> The "risk" being that those templates come to non-en_US users.
> >>
> >> That would be their choice.
> > I don't understand what's so country-specific in a template. AFAIK MS
> > Office does not ship different templates in the US and in Europe. Cannot
> > templates be made mostly country-neutral if contributors are asked to
> > avoid adding too nationally-rooted details?
> 
> It depends on the category of templates. For Writer for example, a
> simple letter presents a lot of differences depending on the country
> (it's even not language specific). The page format will be different,
> the date, margins, location of the addresses, ect...
Ah, OK. This may need some careful work by localization teams.

But for more informal documents, offering a few good-looking templates
is not a problem.

> > Of course text must be translated (if present), but this can be done
> > like GUI labels.
> >
> > If the contest is only for en_US, then most locales won't get any
> > templates at all, which is worse than getting an English template. So
> > better start with the idea that templates will have to be translated.
> 
> Yes. The time frame for 4.4.0 is too short but we don't want to kill the
> enthusiasm of the Design team, so let's have the first contest for en_US
> and the localization team will then work on their internationalization.
Right. But to motivate people outside of the US, better say loudly that
templates will eventually be translated.


Regards

> Kind regards
> Sophie
> 
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> Sophie Gautier [email protected]
> Tel:+33683901545
> Co-founder - Release coordinator
> The Document Foundation
> 


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