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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Wotm: translations on kde 3.3
From:       Eduard Werner <edi.werner () gmx ! de>
Date:       2004-07-17 22:07:37
Message-ID: 200407180007.37361.edi.werner () gmx ! de
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Njedźelu 18 julija 200401:08, Nicolas Goutte pisaše:
> > Then one should be able to choose in kcontrol, whether or not to mix.
> >
> > >(And it gives you bad media reviews, at least in Germany.)
> >
> > Really? Who? How? As the German translation of KDE has almost all apps
> > at least partially translated, there should not be a difference between
> > the old way for German users. They would still have German and some gaps
> > in English. The change is only relevant for languages with partial
> > translation and more than main language+English in kcontrols.
>
> What I mean is that critics about incomplete translations are coming
> over-and-over again, we should perhaps avoid to create extra cases where
> there is a mix of languages. (No, personally, I am not complaining about
> translators' works, not at all.)

Hmmm. Are no translations better than incomplete translations for media 
reviews? I guess it depends how it's labeled. We can call it automagic 
on-the-fly translations for not-yet translated applications. Who else has 
something alike?

> Yes, there really seem to have 2 needs, as there seems also to have 2 sorts
> of users:
> - the ones wanting only a single language
> - the ones wanting as much as possible of their language (or as a variant:
> as less English as possible.)

The second group I find more important: For the first group, this is a mere 
cosmetic problem (and a really unimportant one, IMHO, because I don't know a 
single language w.o. next-to-unchanged loanwords in terminologies). But at 
least for some users of the second group, this might be the difference 
between the possibility of using a program and unability to use it. 

Cheers

Edi

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