From kde-i18n-doc  Wed Sep 27 11:53:02 2000
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:53:02 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: koffice translations!!!
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Logi Ragnarsson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:08:25PM +0200, Marko Samastur wrote:
> 
> > However, Koffice teams isn't the only one to blame. In five days, while
> > I was away, there were plenty of changes in other packages as well
> > (mostly kdelibs, kdebase).
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> Now should be the time where we relax a bit, use the programs as much as we
> can an dfix the little problems that remain like shortcut keys and
> consistency in the UI. Things we couldn't do when the programs were too
> unstable to run.
> 
> In stead, we have to keep re-translating the same strings again and again.
> The messages have been frozen for *weeks* damn it! But at least we can see
> that the frieze isn't being kept at all, so its not just our problem...
> 
> In fact, why are new features still being added to the codebase? Wasn't that
> supposed to stop months ago? And the system is nowhere near stable yet and
> this is called a Release Candidate?
> 
> If this candidate gets released, then I'm not running KDE 2. Sorry, it
> sucks. It is going to be great once the stability problems are solved and
> once the translations are allowed to settle a bit, but that's not going to
> happen very soon.
> 
I don't know of any stability problems. In fact most crashes that are
reported
these days are because of broken binary installations - old libpngs,
wrong OpenGL
drivers, etc.

There number of features that have been added can be counted on one hand
and all
of them were about fixing _greatly_ missing functionality. 

And about the newly added strings: I for one added about 30 or so - all
of them
were untranslatable before and I were bugged quite often to fix this. So
I did.
This kspread thing was the only problem that I've seen going totally
wrong. I
tried to stop it, but the kspread author said it's definitly needed and
wouldn't
add any new strings. I didn't know he meant that it would split up 
every message
in two :(

But I definitly suggest you keep fixing kdebase instead of translating
this new 
kspread messages.

Greetings, Stephan
  
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