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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Semantic tags for i18n, official proposal
From:       "Sveinn í Felli (IMAP)" <sveinki () nett ! is>
Date:       2007-06-20 11:05:39
Message-ID: 46790A03.6040602 () nett ! is
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Thomas Reitelbach wrote:
> If the goal was to give us a really precise view, 
> then I would propose a completely different solution (a graphic solution, 
> where a translator would really _see_ the context of every single message in 
> a dummy GUI or something like that).

Why a 'dummy' GUI ?
Possibly we should predict a 'Translate this program...'
button in every future KDE app, which opens a KBabel-ish
plug-in with translation database support, saving to .po
file and even straight to .mo (for testing); to be executed
in the 'live' application itself ?
Maybe with a different interface whether one has configured
SVN commit access or an anonymous SVN ?

I was just thinking about the consequences, especially for
the smallest translation teams. And the popularity of
translation work. But then there may be a lots of drawbacks;
practical ones (coding, security, etc...) and philosophical
(structural, democratisation vs. anarchy).

But anyway; the basic set of semantic tags proposed by
Chusslove is at least a good start, less is more in my
opinion. Future expansion must be taken into account though.

Have a nice summer solstice;

Sveinn í Felli




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