Rember the thread about
Community translations of Maemo software . That same tool could be used to propose modifications in the official strings. But this would come only in Harmattan...

In summary: Say hello to more EN_fi gibberish in Fremantle.

Nokia clearly doesn't care about the quality of their English strings, so it's likely to be down to shipping another community EN_us package (like the one timeless put together for Diablo) or learning to live with awkward and sometimes vaguely offensive text ("You loose!").

What would come in Harmattan is the infrastructure for community localization that could be used not only to manage unsupported languages but also to file proposals for improving the officially supported languages.

As for Fremantle, we can still do with bugzilla. I believe the quality of the strings will be higher than in previous releases, and I also believe the process to get the bug under the nose of the right people and apply a fix is now in place - even if still not optimal with a tool for translators.

Note that those strings in the final software go through a process that has nothing to do with the unstable developer documentation you have been reading and proofreading.

Talk is cheap, I just want to see some strings that don't make me cringe everytime I use my device.

I believe so deeply in Maemo and these tablets that each time I see something stupid like that, it *hurts*. As someone that proofreads and writes extremely text-heavy games, I completely understand that some stuff will just slip by into a final and there's not much that can be done about that. It's just not very helpful when someone asks me about my tablet (which happens often) and I slip into salesman mode only for some strangely worded string to pop up on the screen and I find myself attempting to apologize and needing to regain their attention.

It's these forgotten/less important areas that I take over at work because no one else will. A lot of people don't realize that you can have a flashy whiz-bang interface that wows people but if there's a lot of screwed up strings, it just results in an overall feel of sloppiness. That wow? It's long gone.

Anyways, rambled on long enough.

^ there's YOUR summit presentation Jay.

Hahaha, yeah, I can totally see getting sponsorship so I could stand up on stage somewhere in Europe with a tablet and yell "DO IT BETTER!"

Be doing it with betterness!

"Betterness, NOT bitterness!"

I've started work on the Maemo 5 Developer's Guide. Please let me know if this is a waste of my time or if there's anything more appropriate to work on.