Re: The translator credits

[Simos Xenitellis <root pc96 ma rhbnc ac uk>]

On 9 Sep 2000, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> Chema Celorio <chema celorio com> writes:
> 
> > >     Language-Team: German <de li org>
> > 
> > Why doesn't it solve the problem ?
> 
> There's more than one reason (not all apply for all programs, though).
> 
>  Often it isn't wanted to expose personal email addresses (cf. gnumeric
> or gnome-about).
> 
> . Translators come and translators go.  Mailinglist addresses are more
> stable (hopefully).  de li org is "open", luckily; I hope,
> gnome-de gnome org is open, too.
> 
<snip>

The reason that this subject was brought forward, was to give some
recognition of the hard effort of the translators.

A nice option would be to show a WWW site of the translation team and
possibly pass a parameter to the URL so that the WWW site can offer custom
views...

That is, in the about box:
--
This program was localised by the <Greek translation team>
--
And in the <>, a link to:

http://nls.hellug.gr/cgi-bin/translation_credits?gnome-core
------------------------------------------------ ----------

static part                                     | variable part

Hmm, the static part could be pointing to a GNOME site that redirects
to different local translation WWW sites. Second attempt:

http://developer.gnome.org/cgi-bin/translation_credits?country=el&package=gnome-core
------------------------------------------------------
static part                                           |$LANG
|gettext() function? etc...

Kind of complicated to implement, just my 5 drachmas. (less than 1p)
simos