From kde-i18n-doc  Fri Jul 23 19:02:14 2004
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:02:14 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: kolourpaint
Message-Id: <200407232101.02328.nicolasg () snafu ! de>
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On Friday 23 July 2004 20:07, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Friday 23 July 2004 17:08, Erik K. Pedersen wrote:
> > Fredag 23 juli 2004 14:04 skrev Jeroen Wijnhout:
> > > The standard response would probably be to look at the About box in the
> > > application. You need to run those apps to test your translation
> > > anyway.
> >
> > There are lots of cases where it is very hard to figure out where a
> > translations is being used. For kile I use it a lot myself being a
> > professional mathematician (I love that program), but in many other cases
> > it is extremely difficult.
> >
> > There is a huge number of trivial corrections that are giving the
> > translators very large amounts of work (e.g. don't -> do not), so I don't
> > actually think it would be particularly unreasonable to ask the
> > developers of being more aware og i18n issues e.g by subscribing to this
> > list.
>
> Well, there is KDE Bugs. (It also has addresses...)

That was not a good answer. :-(

But for simple things like replacing "don't", you can probably ask directly 
Stephan Binner (binner@kde.org) who does "Style Guide" fixes quite often. 
(And of course there is also Malcolm Hunter and others who take care about 
spelling errors.)

(What I try to mean is that open source development does not mean that all 
problems must go always back to the developer.)

>
> Have a nice day!
>
> > Erik