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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Reworking .pot files for kttsd
From:       Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt () comcast ! net>
Date:       2005-03-05 15:57:05
Message-ID: 200503051557.05731.garycramblitt () comcast ! net
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When I set up kdeaccessibility/kttsd, I made the mistake of creating 
individual .pot files for all the various kttsd plugins and parts.  This was 
a mistake for a couple of reasons:

  1.  It creates duplicates strings and therefore makes more work for the 
translators, and

  2.  When I run cvs2dist, it only puts the kttsd.pot file into the resulting 
tarball.  I had to make a custom version of cvs2dist to compensate.

I apologize to all the translators for this mistake.  It was caught too late 
for KDE 3.4 and everyone did a nice job of dealing with it.  I was very 
pleased that there are 27 translations of kttsd that made it into our debian 
and SuSE packages (see my sig below).  Thanks to everyone.

At some point, I'd like to correct this situation, but I'm wondering about the 
impact on existing translations and timing of the change.  Someone mentioned 
that it might be possible to merge all the existing .po files together into a 
single .po (for each language).  If true, that would save the translators 
from having to re-translate kttsd.  How can that be made to happen?  More to 
the point, *who* can/should do that?  For me to do it, I think I'd have to 
check out the entire kde-i18n tree, merge the .po files (for each language), 
and commit?  What is the command(s) to do the merge?  Or should I let each 
translator merge their tree?  (I don't mind doing it if that is ok with 
translators and someone can give me instructions.)

I assume that if I make the switch to my code in HEAD now, this will only 
affect KDE 3.5 translations, and not affect KDE 3.4.1.  True?

FWIW, here are all the .pot/.po filenames for kttsd:

kttsd
kttsd_commandplugin
kttsd_eposplugin
kttsd_festivalintplugin
kttsd_fliteplugin
kttsd_freettsplugin
kttsd_hadifixplugin
kttsd_sbdplugin
kttsd_stringreplacerplugin
kttsd_talkerchooserplugin
kttsd_xmltransformerplugin
kttsjobmgr
kttsmgr
kcmkttsd
khtmlkttsd
ktexteditor_kttsd

They all need to be merged to kttsd.
-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php
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