Re: [PATCH] Use localized websites in gnome-about

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 03:26, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> I don't know if it's an oversight or an intentional behavior, a bug or a
> feature, but IMHO if a national GNOME team has a website is important
> drive the user to it.
> 
> Currently if an italian user don't know about www.it.gnome.org [1], he
> can't see it: this national website is not linked in gnome about and
> www.gnome.org don't have any 'internationalizion' (see debian website)
> 
> [1] We are currently working to update the appearance. Any website code
> somewhere?

I think it's wrong to hardcode the names of specific websites in the
.po files. 

There are several problems with this:

 - The localized site content may get (seriously) out of date.
   Last time I went through all the local web sites, well over
   half had content that dated from the GNOME-1.0 era.

 - The localized web site may vanish, and users will get nothing
   rather than the untranslated web site.

 - We may in the future get localized versions of sites that
   are not localized now, or translations of sites that are
   not localized now.

It wouldn't be hard to create a simple CGI script that
looked at HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG and a parameter and did a database
lookup to to redirect the user. That is, we replace
http://mail.gnome.org/ with:

 http://gnome.org/go?page=mail

The other, more complicated approach is that we localize the pages
in place, but that can be hard with different pages on different
servers .. mail.gnome.org, gnomedesktop.org, etc.

Regards,
					Owen