Ubiquity slideshow translations

[Dylan McCall]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Adi Roiban <adi at roiban.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since Sianis asked to help with testing the ubiquity slideshow for
> Hungarian, I have exported the ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu translations for
> ubiquity slideshow and generated the translated files for all languages.
>
> You can find them here:
> http://l10n.ubuntu.tla.ro/ubuntu-lucid-slideshow/
>
> This is somehow a duplicated work, since Dylan is also generating the
> exported translations here, but there are no hints about the date when
> translations were exported and you have to hack the URL:
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/
>
> My changes are here:
> lp:~adiroiban/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/translation-testing-index
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Adi Roiban
>

That is really useful! Thanks, Adi. I'll add a link to your page from
mine, and I think it could be pretty straight-forward to add some kind
of form for choosing settings in my own test page. Yours is way more
current, too :)

I'm sure someone will ask, so the reason why RTL locales don't appear
right to left in the slideshow (yet) is because it has no way of
knowing which is which. Currently it relies on the outside world to
pass on that information along with the chosen locale, so when this
appears in Ubiquity (assuming Ubiquity has been translated for your
locale) it will be properly right to left. One unfortunate side-effect
of this is that, if the slideshow is told to use an RTL language but
the translation isn't complete, it will fall back to en but still be
right to left.

To see your locale in right to left here, add ?rtl to the very end of
the URL, after the # mark. (Don't worry, I realize it isn't looking
right yet; lots of fiddling to be done).


Dylan