Re: Translations, GNOME and KDE

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> As I said in an earlier answer, you guys have so much opportunity and time
> to make your needs known. It's great that we're getting the feedback now,
> but we're going to have to deal with these things better than reacting to
> crises as they come up. [ Not that this is a crisis, but you know what I
> mean. ;-) ]

May I seize the opportunity to point out a few recommendations for
improvement that I made in my GNOME Localization & Usability essay I
announced a few days back?

I'll mention here the "long term" recommendations that will probably need
some infrastructural work as well.

In short:

* Abstract program GUI from program code insofar this isn't the case yet.
  This enables the development of culture-specific user interfaces. The
  simplest case for this to be used for, is localization of icons.

* Try and work together with other projects like OpenOffice.org and distro
  vendors to standardize the way documentation is translated. There is a
  huge gap in this area, let's not have each project re-invent the wheel.

regards,

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