Re: GNOME Linux Live CD - Language support question

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

ÎÏÎÏ 11/ÎÎÏ/2005, ÎÎÎÏÎ ÎÎÏÎÏÎÎÏÎ ÎÎÎ ÏÏÎ 16:17, Î/Î Luis Villa ÎÎÏÎÏÎ:
> Simos-
> I've responded to your comments in the wiki about language support, I
> hope that is useful.

Thanks, Luis.
I read the comments on the Wiki page for language support.
(http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveCd_2fLiveDiscussion)

We will go soon for a custom LiveCD as described below in (2).

Simos

> I definitely expect in the future:
> 
> (1) that the 'stock' CDs produced for releases will have the
> most-spoken several languages, keeping in mind that we have to
> localize not just GNOME but also the installer and mozilla (and
> probably OOo for the near-term as well.) I believe the first release
> had something like 11 languages, but I honestly forgot to check before
> release- we'll make it part of the release in the future.
> 
> (2) that it should be stupidly easy for local language groups to
> produce custom liveCDs. There are a couple open items on the
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveCd_2fToDo page about this; anyone who
> wants to look into them (I hope someone from gnome-i18n will, as I
> don't have time right now) would be more than welcome to do so. I
> believe that once the questions in the ToDo are resolved it would be
> quite easy for any localization group to produce a fully localized CD.
> 
> Luis
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:08:11 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:38 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > We (Greek Localisation Team) are considering to distribute GNOME LiveCD
> > > along with the press release.
> > >
> > > I have not downloaded the CD yet, so my question is, are there languages
> > > other than English included?
> > 
> > I think there are non-english languges included, and it does ask you to
> > choose a language when it starts. Luis and the marketing list are the
> > people who would know best.
> > 
> > > The full support of languages just for GNOME looks to be around 100MB
> > > (?).
> > >
> > > So, if the LiveCD that Luis is working on does not have languages apart
> > > from English, is anyone interested/(already done) to make custom
> > > language CDs?
> > 
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> > 
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