Ubuntu 11.04 Translations Plans

[Tom Davies]

Hi again

Ok, fairly short and fairly non-technical i would agree with but too easy could 
also be "off-putting"
Regards from
Tom :)



----- Original Message ----
From: David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com>
To: John Barstow <jbowtie at amathaine.com>
Cc: Ubuntu Translators <ubuntu-translators at lists.ubuntu.com>; 
ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Tue, 5 October, 2010 9:26:09
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 11.04 Translations Plans

El dv 17 de 09 de 2010 a les 10:18 +1200, en/na John Barstow va
escriure:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:17 AM, David Planella
> <david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > What are your thoughts and ideas? What do you think we should focus on?
> >
> 
> I would like the ability to easily locate short, non-technical strings
> to translate. Taking GTK as an example module, the first string people
> see is "Error parsing option --gdk-debug". It would be much easier to
> persuade people to contribute if the first string was something like
> "_Add" (actually any of the stock labels in that module). Searching
> for "add" brings up 11 results; the obvious one is result #5.
> 
> I believe that anything we can do to make it easier to locate and
> translate commands, labels, and menu items will go a long way to help
> build up confidence in new or casual contributors.

Thanks John for your useful feedback.

There have been a couple of similar suggestions (or at least in that
direction) in the translators list.

This would require non-trivial development work in Launchpad, i.e.
implementing a new feature. As with other technical requests, if you've
got any further ideas regarding the implementation, I'd suggest opening
a separate thread either in ubuntu-translators or launchpad-dev and take
it from there.

Thanks!

Regards,
David.

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