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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: translated kde dialogs
From:       Jonas_Bähr <jonas.baehr () web ! de>
Date:       2006-03-29 16:24:44
Message-ID: 87842AC3-07AB-4112-97D1-DE2A80C75960 () web ! de
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Am 29.03.2006 um 17:22 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Miguel Ángel Tribaldos wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm not an experienced KDE developer.
>> My question is: How to do KFileDialog and others KDE dialogs show
>> translated?? (spanish)
>>
>
> Here's how it works:
>
> 1) Developers write everything in English.
> 2) Everything that is supposed to be translated is marked specially in
> code
> 3) All of the marked strings are extracted to a file, which is then  
> given
> to translators
> 4) Translators translate all strings (not words, not sentences; whole
> strings)
> 5) When the dialog is about to be shown, we take that string and  
> look it
> up in the translation list. If we find the translation, we show it.
>
> So, when you see in the code: i18n("Message in English"), that will be
> translated to whichever language has been selected by the user config.

Here is a more detailed description (KDE-3): http://developer.kde.org/ 
documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/kde-i18n-howto.html

bye,
Jonas

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