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 > > -- > Sophie Gautier [email protected] > Tel:+33683901545 > Co-founder - Release coordinator > The Document Foundation > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
