Re: integrating vertimus in damned-lies

[Jorge González González <aloriel gmail com>]

I guess is my turn to contribute to this thread.

During the GUADEC-ES in Granada we (some members of the Spanish GTP) met
one responsible of Extremadura's regional government (Linex department
[1]) who is in contact with the people from Guadalinex [2] and also with
Mark Shuttleworth (they're clients of Canonical).

Some years ago, the Spanish GTP asked for a translation tool, and since
some regions of Spain were (and are) using our software and translations
in their machines (a lot, 1 per 2 students in every single school) it
would be nice and cool if they could provide it. Those conversations
ended up in nothing.

In Granada we talked about a serious proposal of it. The idea is to
crete a new tool, to update GTranslator properly (there is a guy, from
Galicia, doing his final proyect improving GTranslator) or a plugin for
Gedit. The requirements we sent to the regional governments and what is
going to arrive to Mark is something like this:
* Kbabel style panes
* The application should be able to download a file (svn/rosetta)
* The application should have a glossary divided into categories
* The application should have a dictionary
* The application should use translation memories (from rosetta and
imported from our own local files)
* The application should be able to suggest strings
* The application should show a visual diff (meld like)
* The application should render a po into XML when a manual is being
translated

There was also mention that it should approve translations from users
(rosetta) or something like that, so if DL improves a user system or
something like that, it would be woth to tell them about it.

We didn't mention GTK+ explicit but we all are GNOME fans so we guess it
will be the platform chosen.

This is just the first step to get a new tool or an improved one for us,
I guess with what have been said before and this we have a lot to talk
about.

So, wouldn't be nice something like that?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linex
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalinex
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