From kde-core-devel Thu Sep 28 13:53:32 2000 From: Kim Enkovaara Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:53:32 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Koffice translations X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97015041704997 On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Matthias Ettrich wrote: > for actually wasting your time and writing free code. Can we please get down to > earth again?! The idea to ship a .0 version AT THE SAME TIME with complete > translations and documentation is very ambibious, this is why nobody else is > doing it. We try to do our best to help, but if it compromises code quality, I have been doing few commercial translation projects also and they were always done to the released version of the SW. Or propably started with very late beta. I think also that getting everything translated to KDE 2.0.0 is too ambitious goal. We can achieve good translations, but perfection needs time. If I remember correctly that was also case with KDE 1.0.0 and it had less translatable programs and strings on the whole. As a translator I understand that one change in strings causes work for many people, but that shoudn't prevent correcting spelling errors in the original texts or functionality. We need stable and good enviroment first, then the translations to complement it. If we have buggy environment we have nothing. ============================================================================= Mr. Kim Enkovaara | kim.enkovaara@iki.fi | Microelectronic Riemannian Iirislahdentie 47 E | IRC: embo | curved-space fault in 02230 Espoo,Finland | | write-only file system