Originally Posted by thp

You can do this already. You have to do a custom "translation" of the UIs in question. If you want to do it the quick'n'dirty way, grab the .mo files for the app you want to edit from

Code:

/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES

(where en_US is replaced with the locale you have set up - for me, it's English (United States), it might be different for you). As an example, use the hildon-fm.mo file (the file manager texts). Now, copy that file from the device to your computer, and use

Code:

msgunfmt hildon-fm.mo > hildon-fm.po

to convert it to a plaintext gettext file. You can then open and edit this using e.g. poedit. After you are done editing, save it, and use

Code:

msgfmt hildon-fm.po -o hildon-fm.mo

to compile the message catalog again. Now, copy the updated catalog to your device in the same folder as the old file (/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES) and make sure the permissions are correct.

You might need root permissions for replacing the files on the device. Be careful!

Sounds are replaced by simply replacing the sound files in

Code:

/usr/share/sounds

or

Code:

/usr/share/sounds/maemo/stereo

Have fun, but if you break something, you got to keep the pieces

Update: It seems like the "gettext" package is even available in Extras. With an "apt-get install gettext", you can have msgfmt and msgunfmt directly on your N900, and do everything from the X Terminal.