Make Ubuntu speak your language: a call for Ubuntu translations on the phone

Thu Jan 16 11:49:05 UTC 2014

Great!
Yet officially fully translated :)

I wish I could use my phone for Ubuntu Touch testing but I have all sorts
of security tokens on it and it has the potential of interfering with my
job so I refrain, waiting for your instructions regarding the emulator.

Yaron Shahrabani

<Hebrew translator>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:51 AM, David Planella
<david.planella at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Just a heads up that the location indicator is now translatable in
> Launchpad:
>
>
> https://translations.launchpad.net/indicator-location/14.04/+pots/indicator-location
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:22 PM, David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks Yaron for the heads up. Comments inline:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The following are untranslatable:
>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/indicator-location
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, I filed a bug a while ago, I'll poke the developers:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-location/+bug/1232412
>>
>>
>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/unity-scope-home
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, I linked to the wrong project there. Translations are not enabled
>> in the upstream project, but they are in the source package. The correct
>> link is:
>>
>>
>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/unity-scope-home/+pots/unity-scope-home/
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Everything else is fully translated to Hebrew.
>>>
>>
>> Awesome, nice work!
>>
>> Please let me know if you spot anything else with those translation
>> templates.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Yaron Shahrabani
>>>
>>> <Hebrew translator>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:03 PM, David Planella <
>>> david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Translators,
>>>>
>>>> I'm forwarding the [call for translations from the original blog
>>>> post][1] to the list.
>>>>
>>>> It's going to be one of the most exciting years in the history of
>>>> Ubuntu. We're seeing innovation and stunning work across the board, and a
>>>> huge momentum and interest from OEMs and carriers to ship a phone with
>>>> Ubuntu, with already a confirmed partner.
>>>>
>>>> With our favourite OS expanding to yet another order of magnitude,
>>>> every contribution is becoming even more important. And with phones
>>>> shipping all over the globe, multilingual support and Ubuntu translators
>>>> are going to be one of the keys to Ubuntu's success.
>>>>
>>>> In the same way you've helped us bring an excellent localized
>>>> experience to the desktop throughout the years, we now need your help
>>>> ensuring the phone reaches that level of excellence too. Once more, you can
>>>> bring Ubuntu on phones to millions in their language.
>>>>
>>>> To make it easier to focus on the most important parts, here's a
>>>> summary of the main Ubuntu components that can be translated in Launchpad,
>>>> our collaborative translation tool.
>>>>
>>>> And if you're new to translating Ubuntu, you can also help! [Check out
>>>> our Translations Quickstart guide >][2]
>>>>
>>>> ## Unity and scopes
>>>>
>>>> Unity is essentially Ubuntu's UI, and version 8 is what is currently
>>>> running on the phone and will ultimately run on all form factors once we
>>>> achieve full convergence.
>>>>
>>>> By translating Unity, the most visible user interface parts will appear
>>>> in your language. Scopes are also part of Unity, and enable bringing
>>>> content to users in a natural and organized way.
>>>>
>>>> *   [Translate Unity >][3]
>>>> *   [Translate the Unity scopes >][4]
>>>>
>>>> ## Indicators
>>>>
>>>> Indicators are another Unity technology that enables quick access to
>>>> system settings that you access every day, such as networking, location,
>>>> sound, etc., as well as the messaging menu. Translating indicators will
>>>> localize their menus when you swipe from the top edge.
>>>>
>>>> *   [Translate the Bluetooth indicator >][5]
>>>> *   [Translate the Date and Time indicator >][6]
>>>> *   [Translate the Power indicator >][7]
>>>> *   [Translate the Sound indicator >][8]
>>>> *   [Translate the Network indicator >][9]
>>>> *   [Translate the Location indicator >][10]
>>>> *   [Translate the Messages indicator >][11]
>>>>
>>>> ## Core and system apps
>>>>
>>>> You can think of core and system apps as being the same thing: a set
>>>> the essential apps every user would expect preinstalled on their devices.
>>>> Translating core apps, you'll make it possible to have a richer localized
>>>> experience with clock, camera, weather, calculator and more.
>>>>
>>>> *   [Translate core apps >][12]
>>>> *   [Translate system apps >][13]
>>>> *   [Translate the System Settings app >][14]
>>>>
>>>> ## Testing translations
>>>>
>>>> With the addition of multiple supported form factors, testing is
>>>> important not only to ensure that translations are correct, but also that
>>>> they fit in UI components of different widths. So please double-check that
>>>> long texts fit in in the smaller factors such as the phone.
>>>>
>>>> Translation testing on a running phone or on the emulator deserves an
>>>> article of its own, so please stay tuned for the next update coming soon.
>>>>
>>>> Happy translating!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David.
>>>>
>>>>  [1]: http://davidplanella.org/make-ubuntu-speak-your-language/
>>>>  [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/QuickStartGuide
>>>>  [3]: https://translations.launchpad.net/unity8
>>>>  [4]: https://translations.launchpad.net/unity-scope-home
>>>>  [5]:
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/indicator-bluetooth/+pots/indicator-bluetooth
>>>>  [6]:
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/indicator-datetime/+pots/indicator-datetime/
>>>>  [7]:
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/indicator-power/+pots/indicator-power/
>>>>  [8]:
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/indicator-sound/+pots/indicator-sound/
>>>>  [9]: https://translations.launchpad.net/indicator-network
>>>>  [10]: https://translations.launchpad.net/indicator-location
>>>>  [11]:
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/indicator-messages/+pots/indicator-messages/
>>>>  [12]: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone-coreapps
>>>>  [13]: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-touch-preview
>>>>  [14]:
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-settings/trunk/+translations
>>>>  [15]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/david-planella/11947627275/
>>>>  [16]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
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