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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Rosetta for Edgy and KDE [Was: Rosetta for Kubuntu Dapper and KDE]
From:       Tom Albers <tomalbers () kde ! nl>
Date:       2006-07-14 16:50:59
Message-ID: 200607141850.59286.tomalbers () kde ! nl
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Op vrijdag 14 juli 2006 07:19, schreef Jannick Kuhr:
> Am Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 01:51 schrieb Tom Albers:
> > I don't think adding a link will harm KDE more ( or less ) than an icon
> > change of konquerors logo, changing the default homepage of konqueror or
> > replacing the icon of the start menu with a SUSE or Red Hat icon.
>
> I think it is much more. By placing a link to the Lauchpad homepage with
> the title "Translate this program" the Ubuntu guys pretend this is the
> official option to translate the application. A new, unexperienced user
> will never get the idea, that there might be an official translation team,
> which provides translations for all distributions including Ubuntu. In the
> first few month this won't harm us, but if other distributions start to do
> the same, it will become dificult to find good translators for the official
> teams.
>
> I would like to make one proposal:
>
> Place the link, but let it pop up an dialog, which explains the situation:
>
> "If you want to impropve the translation of %1 you have two possibilities.
> You can get in contact with the official KDE translation team for your
> language or you can start to improve Kubuntu's translation immediatly using
> Lauchpad. If you do the latter, your translations will probably not reach
> the users of other distributions and could be overwritten sometime by a
> translation of the official KDE translation teams. However it is easy and
> your translation will appear immediately in Kubuntu"
>
> Behind this text two buttons, this example for dutch ;-)
>
> "Dutch KDE Team"                                                   
> "Lauchpad"
>
> This would be a soultion I could live with. Especially because it's clear
> for the user what he/she is doing and that there are different
> possibilities.
>
> Kind regards, Jannick

This is a joke, right?

Toma
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