Re: GIMP tips translation

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

lör 2002-02-23 klockan 15.03 skrev Sven Neumann:
> My plan is to convert the gimp_tips.txt to XML and to use intltool to
> ease translation of this file.

Great!


> However I don't think that the tips
> messages should be part of gimp's main message catalog, so I intend to
> collect the tips messages in a separate message catalog that is solely
> used to create po files.

This sounds like a sane strategy. The tips are probably less prioritized
by many translators than the strings from the main interface. A split-up
gives individual translators the possibility to prioritize different
parts differently. But you most likely already knew that (I have short
memory but I think we already discussed this as a reason).


> The translations are then merged back into
> the gimp-tips.xml file. Would that be fine for the translators? Where
> would you want the po files to live? In the tips directory next to the
> gimp-tips.xml or should I add a po-tips directory? I'd prefer to keep
> everything in the tips directory. Please speak up if you have strong
> feelings against this...

I have no strong feelings either way. The advantage of a "po-tips"
directory would be that it is immediately visible, and not something you
would have to carefully read a README file to find out that it contains
something that should be translated (which I think is more of the case
with putting the po files in the "tips" directory).

In any case, thanks for doing this!


Christian