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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu-devel] kdeedu/i18n/common use
From:       Matthias Messmer <bmlmessmer () web ! de>
Date:       2002-04-25 8:34:16
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On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:21, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> > I agree, that we should look over everything about the maximum use of
> > i18n features. Some apps use external files with translatable data, whis
> > isnt i18n-ed yet. I did it (with help from carsten) only a few weeks ago
> > for KPercentage.
> >
> > But the main point here is  (imo), that we have a language problem with
> > language programs. Think of language lessons at school! Explain another
> > language by language. One educational approach is only to use the
> > language itself and some concrete objects, that means explain german in
> > german or spanish in spanish. Say "Apfel" and point to an apple! And
> > pupils are made to use only the new language to communicate. So it is a
> > serious approach making the GUI of KVerbos  (e.g.) in spanish. And it can
> > be used "worldwide by everybody" how wants to learn spanish seriously.
> > One will decide to say, it is too difficult: a spanish interface for
> > learning spanish! But it is educational reasonable (imo).
>
> I think I already mentioned before, that I am much in favour of
> configurable options ;-)))
>
> Well, another weird idea for this problem: Make an option for language
> apps, that says "use language of excercise for GUI". This could be also one
> of the options that is configured globally in a kcontrol center module. If
> the english GUI is translated by the translations teams, then the
> translations are available anyways (ok, if they are installed... but
> usually one learns only a limited set of languages and you could tell the
> user to install the other i18n packages to use this option).

That would be nice, indeed.

> It would be nice if the language apps handle that in a similar way. Is
> there any cooperation between the coders going on?

I only remember the chat with Arnold about the spanish interface of KVerbos. 
We didnt talk about that since then - yet.

>
> Greetings,

dto. ;-)

Matthias

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Matthias Messmer, Germany
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