[Thunar-dev] translations through rosetta

[Jasper Huijsmans]

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>> 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.
> 

No worry perhaps, but I also don't think this is an acceptable situation 
from the Xfce point of view. I personally would not want to depend on 
closed source resources outside our control.

	Jasper