Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-09 Thread Fòram na Gàidhlig
> Maybe I should back up the Launchpad > translations for our locale... I always download everything I translate and keep a copy. And I feed Virtaal's TM every time too. There is no such thing as a superfluous backup. -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https:/

Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-08 Thread Michael Bauer
This seems to be a bit of a pattern, sadly, as if translator time did not matter. First time I started pulling hair over this was when I found out that Launchpad a) does not sync translations with upstream projects and b) it is littered with dead project which are still "open" to translation.

Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-08 Thread Marcin Xc
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Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-07 Thread Fòram na Gàidhlig
Well, that's a tinker phone. Nice for geeks like us, but for the average user, not so much. I am talking about a phone for the average computer-illierate who doesn't know any more about computer than swipe & tap. We really need something out-of-the-box. Even as a computer literate, I estimate that

So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-06 Thread Fòram na Gàidhlig
Hi all, Canonical is axing the developement of the phone and tablet: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/ Same story as with what Mozilla did to us: We spent years developing a phone, localizing and creating a keyboard and a c