Re: Improvement of WWW GNOME translation status page

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt>]

2000-11-09 14:48, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Christian Rose wrote:
> > How is it any different from the situation today? You don't get
> > statistics for every individual source file in applications, because
> > such statistics is not useful.
> > The .desktop files would just be extra "source files" in the
> > application. If they're not translated, the application isn't 100%
> > translated. I don't see the point in counting them seperately from
> > everything else?
> > 
> You don't need the statistics for every source file, just for files
> treated differently than po file. Could you incorporate all text to be
> translated into PO file? The initial idea was to get more info, quickly.

Almost all programs have just one .desktop file with two strings in it.
These need to be transalted only once, no revision needed.

I think there is no use to have stats about it. Just use scripts which were
posted here or desk.pl which is in several programs, or write your own
simple script to test these files once, translate them and forget.

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Gediminas Paulauskas
Lithuanian translator