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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Danish translations
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1999-04-29 9:09:08
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Bo Thorsen wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I really hope that there is still time for a final cvs checkin on the
> danish translations before kde 1.1.1, since we are four people who have
> been at it for almost 16 hours now, and the translations are some places
> very strange.
> 
> To try and make you all realize that this was necessary and flame all us
> danes that it was not done before, here are a couple of examples on how
> the tranlations looked. I took the english text (before the : ) and then
> somewhat directly translated the danish translation back to english to
> make you see the problems.
> 
> case sensitive: size of characters.
> -nice: Friendly values.
> Rendering lens (<-misspell): There gives lense???
> Software: Directly translated to Programware
> Application: Usage
> Menu Tooltips: Menutricks
> Acrobat reader: Postscript viewer
> 
> Now please don't take this as an assault on the danish translators, since
> I'm absolutely amazed how big a task it has been to just correct some
> mistakes here, and I think they have generally done a very good job. But
> the translations clearly show that the translators do not know all the
> things they're translating. It has sometimes been extremely funny to see
> the translations, so the hours have not been that long :-)
> 
> We have tried very hard not to introduce problems with duplicated shortcut
> keys and it is our hope that we have introduced less errors on this front
> than the ones we have corrected (yes there was a lot).
> 
> We have only done kdelibs and kdebase fully, and the kdelnk files in
> kdenetwork and kdeutils. The .po files in these and the rest of the
> archives and the remainder of the .kdelnk files will have to wait for a
> later release.
> 
> As a sidenote, we found some apps, that still does not use
> layoutmanagement, but we decided against doing anything about it since
> this would be unacceptible this close to a release and every layout
> management will change to qt 2 anyway.
> 
> I (Bo) have accepted to receive all flames on account of our job here, and
> I will coordinate with Erik Kjær Pedersen in the future for some good
> danish translations.
> 
You commited kdelnk files - if you update you will see that these files
got reverted by now as kdelnk files aren't translated itself since
months
now.

And after all the source for 1.1.1 is closed. But you may want to
release a 
patch for danish users. Just use "cvs diff -r KDE_1_1_1_RELEASE -r
KDE_1_1_BRANCH"
to get it.

Greetings, Stephan

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