On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:39:33PM +0200, julien wrote: > Hi, > > GIMP UI strings are in gnome: 66 different .po. Each of them is often > updated. > It would be a real pity for the GIMP spreading to do without these 66 > experimented translators. > IMO, gimp-help must join the GNOME team. The gettext scenario is necessary. > > The Wiki scenario will bring a lot of text editions. We can imagine that > languages versions progressively will become independant from each > others. Valuable things can be introduced in a language I can't > understand. The unity of the gimp-help project will be broken. > Is it easy to find what has changed in the Wiki? > So, Joan, Julien and me are all convicted that a wikipedia approach it not without (big) drawbacks. The use of the gettext tool with all the .po/.pot file format conversion is meant mainly to enable: - automatic revision control: easily find(!!) and update(!) updated strings - use of specialist translation editors (poedit/kbabel/gtranslator/emacs/etc.) - even tools with web interface ready like rosetta (wich enable group revision and commit supervision...) or pottle: see -> http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/ this is _much_ more than wiki! -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
