[Xfce-i18n] Swedish translation

[Jens Hagerman]

Alright! I'll just await a further notice from you regarding the svn repo,
check out that link and start playing around with .po files.
I think that should get me started. Thanks a lot!
Best regards, Jens


2006/2/11, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com>:
>
> I guess I'm the main translator. Magnus Berg translated xfce 4.0 but
> hasn't been active since then. I updated the translation for 4.2.3, so
> I have in no way translated all of it myself.
>
> And having two people working on it is good, as we could consult
> eachother when we're not sure how to translate a string. And discuss
> which translation to use.
>
> I'll see if I can set up an svn repo on a server I've got running
> here. It would be significantly easier to cooperate if we had one.
>
> http://i18n.xfce.org/ should contain the info you need. Basically, you
> take a sv.po file, add yourself under the header, set yourself as
> last-translator, then translate the strings. For example:
>
> #: libxfcegui4/netk-window-action-menu.c:185
> msgid "S_how"
> msgstr "_Visa"
>
> _ is prefixed to the character that will be the shortcut key to a menu
> item.
>
> #, fuzzy means that the string that was to be translated has changed,
> and the translation probably has to be updated, or that the original
> translator was unsure of the translation.
>
> Also, to check that the format of your translated file is correct,
> you'd use the following command:
>
> msgfmt -c --check-accelerators=_ -o /dev/null sv.po
>
> This is all I can think of right now.
>
> Regards, Alexander Toresson
>
> On 2/11/06, Jens Hagerman <godhet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nice with such a quick answer from the main Swedish translator! I think
> this
> > could actually be a good opportunity for me to get into the project,
> since I
> > could reduce the workload for you but still have an experienced user
> looking
> > over and finishing it before the next release. As I said, my experience
> > contributing to open source software is zero, so maybe i'm wrong about
> that
> > several people can still make a good and unified translation? You know
> it
> > better.
> > If you think i could suit for this, i still need some guidelines for
> getting
> > started with a translation.
> >
> > Jens
> >
> > 2006/2/11, Alexander Toresson < alexander.toresson at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > On 2/11/06, Jens Hagerman < godhet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello!
> > > > I've spent the last few days checking out Xfce from svn and setting
> it
> > up to
> > > > my needs, and I really like it. The only thing I'm missing though is
> a
> > > > complete Swedish translation; it's there in a lot of places but not
> > > > everywhere (I did check out the statistics page to confirm this).
> Now,
> > I've
> > > > never before participated in developing (nor translating) software,
> but
> > i
> > > > had a strong feeling I would like to contribute to Xfce, and I
> thought
> > doing
> > > > translations may be a good start. So my questions are; is it just a
> > waste of
> > > > work doing translations of the trunk (except for myself) since it is
> > > > continually updated, or do you think it would be a nice help? And if
> so,
> > how
> > > > do I get started with doing translations?
> > > > Also, i've never used this (or any) mailing list before, so I hope I
> > made my
> > > > question at the right place.
> > > > NB: I only intend to do Swedish translations.
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > >
> > > > Jens
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I translated xfce 4.2.3 to Swedish and is intending to translate trunk
> > > when it's a bit nearer a release. Of course you can help, though. I'm
> > > flooded with school work currently.
> > >
> > > Regards, Alexander Toresson
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