DesktopTranslations again

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le mercredi 12 octobre 2005 à 19:45 +0200, Ernst Persson a écrit :

> Seems like very few translation-teams have found the
> DesktopTranslations page on Ubuntu's wiki.

Hi,

A mail has been sent on this list about that ...


> But the existance of this page is a bit wierd!
> Why is it not handled from Rosetta?

The page has been made, as a quick hack, because some uploads were
planned for translations update and we figured we could get some other
language strings this way.

Shipping the desktop files with the language-pack require some work but
is planned. You can read about it on the wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguagePackRoadmap


> And why aren't the translations in the upstream packages?

Because upstream translators don't have enough contributors? Another
reason is that some string are distro specific.


> Some of them, like GIMP and Evolution must surely have more translations
> than that!

The Debian/Ubuntu package change the GIMP title so upstream translation
are dropped. For evolution you speak about evolution-mail.desktop? It's
also ubuntu specific


> And how come some of those packages actually was translated to swedish
> in breezy even though they were not translated on this page?

Because somebody sent translations by bugzilla/mail/... 


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher