From kde-i18n-doc  Wed Jun 20 11:23:30 2007
From: =?UTF-8?B?IlN2ZWlubiDDrSBGZWxsaSAoSU1BUCki?= <sveinki () nett ! is>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:23:30 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Semantic tags for i18n, official proposal
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A bit more development:

The 'Translate this program...' button could put the
application in a translation mode (sort of like emacs
switches modes), one clicks on a GUI element to open a
translation window for that element. Also there should be a
way to translate hidden and processing messages.

Probably this is alrady out of context of this thread, so
excuse me...;)

bless í bili

Sveinn í Felli

Sveinn í Felli (IMAP) wrote:
> 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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