Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

Is it possible now to help translating projects for Turkish or do we have to wait more?

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

I don't see why not :) - but i would assume a post on the actual garage pages offering assistance would also be useful :) - especially if you are interested in translating certain apps? :)

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

I'll get my phone on Dec 12, but I want to be ready =) I'm interested in main UI -I think its about Hildon-.

Where's garage pages? (is it something like Launchpad/Rosetta?) :)

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

I´m just reposting an email from Nikos Korkakakis here:
The collection is now knows as maemo-extras. Have a look here:
https://transifex.net/collections/c/maemo-extras

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

I looked at transifex yesterday and - while i was there - provided a missing translation... it's so easy to do good. ;)

One question for the transifex experts here, though:

Could the infrastructure there be used to provide package maintainers with translation for the "description" field in their debian/control files?

The way i understood transifex, it works on a "one file provides one language"-basis, whereas the package descriptions are all thrown together in one file and I don't see how transifex would tell which languages are missing/complete within this file.

Having package descriptions translated is a fetish of mine, I can't help it. So when I tried transifex yesterday I thought it would be cool if this aspect of translation could be covered, too, so we'd have all in one.... Just didn't find how it would fit the system.

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

I don't want to give a translator access to my packages' debian/control. One solution could be a standard recipe (maybe even a dh_...) which took translations from the .po files and put them into debian/control at build time?

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

Does anybody know about a similar service that supports Qt-translation files (*.ts)?

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

I tried, but I failed :( http://maemo.org/community/maemo-dev...using-po_file/

I would love to have this! My work around for now is to put the description string into the po file and when I´m doing a release, I´m manually copying it to the control file. Not nice, but better then nothing. At least the interface for the translator stays the same.

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

AFAIK it´s on the TODO list for transifex.net. Not sure when it will be released, though.

Re: Community translations of Maemo software
 

Oh... well... yes. ;)

You lost me at "dh_..." - my Debian packaging skills are defined by Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

Anyway, I just wanted to throw in the question/idea... right now, the workflow is: See package without description in your language in HAM ==> file bug or send mail to maintainer ==> wait.
That's not too difficult.

Anything provided by transifex should be about as simple (for the package maintainer, that is), plus it should provide

• the ability to search the collection for untranslated package descriptions (which you might not see if you don't have -texting/-devel enabled)
• the ability to search the collection for untranslated package descriptions for languages other than the one you use on your N900
• a more straightforward and controlled way of submitting translations