[Thunar-dev] translations through rosetta

[Jani Monoses]

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> If this is indeed easier for (most/many) translators, it sounds like 
> something that would benefit all Xfce modules.

I proposed to try it with thunar as it is mostly independent of the rest 
of xfce, while the people managing translations for it are the same I 
think. If this turnes out to be successful then definitely the whole 
xfce could benefit.

> 
> How would this work in practice? Is rosetta available outside Ubuntu?
> 

I wanted to try it myself but the rosetta policy is they only import po 
files if upstream agrees, so I couldn't play around with thunar 
translations and them come here with more details. If in principle 
Daichi and other translators show interest the rosetta/launchpad people 
are open to introducing the team to the process or answer questions
which may arise. What needs to be done for each interested translator
is creating a launchpad account and then getting accepted in the 
specific locale's translation team which manages the rest of software
for that language in rosetta.

At this point rosetta is not free software and is only available on 
canonical's launchpad.net and primarily used for ubuntu. The FAQ has 
more details on why this should not cause _too_ much worry.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RosettaFAQ

I quote the relevant parts below

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Is Rosetta Open/Free Software?

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       No, Rosetta is not Open or Free Software at the moment. Rosetta 
will become open source sometime in the future but we don't have a date, 
although some parts of the Launchpad have already been released under 
the GPL by Canonical Ltd.

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If Rosetta isn't free, how are the translations submitted to the system 
licenced?

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       Even if Rosetta isn't Free Software at this time, the 
translations created in and uploaded into Rosetta will be licenced under 
the same licence as the software. By using Rosetta, you give permission 
to Canonical Ltd. to publish those translations under the same licence 
as the software they belong to.

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What happens if Rosetta closes? Will the translations be lost?

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       One of the main features of Rosetta is the ability to handle PO 
files easily. All the translations in the system can be exported and 
editted in a PO editor such as PoEdit, KBabel or GTranslator. You will 
be able to continue your work outside Rosetta.