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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Seperate language packages
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1999-12-19 17:59:12
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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

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