Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 20:00 schrieb Jonathan Riddell:

> > Don't get me wrong, but at the moment this looks more like a
> > parallel community to me.
>
> It is.  Distributions have always had parallel development
> communities than their upstreams.

Yes. And as far as translation is concerned this 
uncoordinated "parallel development" always led to totally 
inconsistent GUIs and usability disasters as far as my 
experience with German distro versions goes.

KDE translation is mostly a very clear structured and well 
documented process -- see all the material of stats, mailing 
lists, web sites, coordinators etc. for the individual teams on 
the l10n server. It shouldn't be too difficult for the 
respective (K)Ubuntu teams to coordinate their work with KDE 
people instead of reinventing the wheel with every new version 
for no good reason. And I think Ubuntu should "officially 
encourage" this (just in case this is not happening already).

Kind regards,

Thomas