On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:14, Paul Vriens <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 11:04 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > >> Francois Gouget<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We will still need people to take on the somwhat unsexy control resizing >>> >>> task and that may be a problem. If it turns out we lack volunteers for >>> that we may turn to some automatic layout scheme, for instance describe >>> the resources in a glade-like language and translate+convert them to rc >>> files at build time. >>> >> >> Sounds not very exciting. If there is a choice of having resources with >> properly >> placed and sized controls but english only, vs. translated but with broken >> layout >> ones, then I'm afraid most users would prefer an english variant. >> > > Once we start using po files we can probably get rid of the 'transl' > website as those stats will come from whatever tool we choose to deal with > po files. > > For the actual resources and their size/placements it would be nice to have > a tool/website as well that could be used to show how the translated > language actually looks in a menu/dialog/whatever with even the possibility > to change things. Is that feasible? > Why reinventing the wheel? Such a tool already exists (ResHacker or similar). What we should do to attract more people is to provide a more "user-friendly" web page/ translator page explaining in greater detail: - how to find what has to be translated (translation statistics, .rc files, ...) - how to edit a file (#pragma code_page, encoding, menu accelerators, ...) - how to check/adapt actual results with ResHacker, since you have to either adapt the text to fit in, or the dialogs size) - how to create a patch OR send it to e.g. [email protected] for inclusion I may help in doing this. Furthermore, on the main web page, "Development - Become a Wine developer" can be intimidating for some potential translators (most non-developers potential translators would not consider themselves... well... developers!). Maybe something like "Contribute - How you can help" (or similar) would be less repulsive. Frédéric
