From kde-i18n-doc Sun Dec 19 17:59:12 1999 From: Stephan Kulow Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:59:12 +0000 To: kde-i18n-doc Subject: Re: Seperate language packages X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=94562638506624 Manuel Gaul wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Marko Samastur wrote: > > [..] > > As I've mentioned before, documentation should come with KDE packages. I > > wouldn't pack it as a separate package (at least not HTML version > > available in programs), because this way it might get sacrificed by > > distribution vendors. Considering all possible translations, this would > > probably bloat the size of packages considerably, but I still think it > > should be done. Other formats (postscript...) could be packaged > > separately. > > [..] > > In my opinion the original docs (English) should be in the corresponding > package, but ALL the translations should come in ONE package for each language. > And maybe they should include the GUI translations too so that a Spanish user > for example just had to install the packages let's say kdenetwork and then > "kde-es" (apart from the basesystem), and voila ... he can write e-mails in a > program that "speaks" Spanish (assuming that KMail is translated :). This user > doesn't care whether there's the Dutch, German or whatever translation on his > HD as long as his HD space doesn't get low. And this definetely would happen if > we wanted to include all translated docs into the packages. > This idea wouldn't only make things better for the user but would also make it > easier for the packagers (at least I think so). Apart from the "giants" like > RedHat, Suse and Caldera there're are smaller ones that do only distribute in > their countries. They do only need the package(s) with the language(s) spoken > in this country and no others. > > These are just some thoughts and I'm not sure whether they're as easily > achievable as I imagined them to be. Maybe the number of packages would even > outweight the advantages. This is exactly the way it is now. It's kde-i18n-es, but it works this way :) Greetings, Stephan -- When your memory goes, forget it!