Thread: Dilemma: to localize application's name or not?
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2010-02-19 , 12:05
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Originally Posted by tuminoid View Post
Localization of package descriptions appear to be very little used. I checked extras, extras-testing and extras-devel:

Using finnish locale I found 1 app with localized name, 0 descriptions.

With german language I found 1 app with localized name and 7 with localized descriptions.
This is a real problem IMHO. I tried to send translations to a few package maintainers, but only some included them so far.

Actually, I think at some later point translated package descritpions should be enforced as a prerequisite for getting into Extras in the first place. It's an absolutely intolerable thing to force English package descriptions on people who run a German/French/Finnish/... UI. So unprofessional... and yet it could be changed with so little effort.

I wonder why this is. Don't the developers know about this possibility or don't they care?