Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager

2005-07-15 Thread James Ogley
> I've been told to announce to you helpful people that I had imported the > gnome-power-manager module into GNOME CVS. > If you want to translate any of what we've done so far (there's a 70% > done German translation already) then it would be most appreciated. Just committed en_GB (British Englis

Re: gnome-doc-utils strings (was Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-14 Thread Yavor Doganov
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:04:07 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > It is essential to know the purpose of the string. Background like: > ___ > Type: menu item > Function: brings up a dialogue which allows the user to modify > currently-highlighted text > Original: Edit > ___ >

Re: gnome-doc-utils strings (was Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-13 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 13/07/2005, at 4:21 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: If we just had to worry about masculine/feminine/mixed, this would be an easily solvable problem. But this Vietnamese social status stuff could make things interesting. But hey, interesting problems are fun problems. What my language really ne

Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Hughes
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:39 +0200, Hendrik Brandt wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 16:17 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes: > > Guys/Girls, > > > > I've been told to announce to you helpful people that I had imported the > > gnome-power-manager module into GNOME CVS. > > > > If you want to transl

gnome-doc-utils strings (was Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:39 +0200, Hendrik Brandt wrote: > "%i minute" "%i hour" "%i second" (all singular) > This is a common mistake. For a word in singular it's better to write > e.g. "1 minute", so a translator can decide how to translate. In German > for example "1 minute" will almost translat

Describing nouns (was: Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-12 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 13/07/2005, at 8:09 AM, Hendrik Brandt wrote: There are similar problems in other languages, e.g. French and Russian. It's not your fault, I think it's more a genreal problem and incapability of the current translation methods. E.g. there is currently no way to distinguish between differ

Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager

2005-07-12 Thread Hendrik Brandt
Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 16:17 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes: > Guys/Girls, > > I've been told to announce to you helpful people that I had imported the > gnome-power-manager module into GNOME CVS. > > If you want to translate any of what we've done so far (there's a 70% > done German translat

New module : GNOME Power Manager

2005-07-12 Thread Richard Hughes
Guys/Girls, I've been told to announce to you helpful people that I had imported the gnome-power-manager module into GNOME CVS. If you want to translate any of what we've done so far (there's a 70% done German translation already) then it would be most appreciated. If I've done anything wrong w.