Re: problem with translating totem

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

O/H Mohammad Foroughi έγραψε:
> > please fix this fatal error first, and try again.
> > (or post both the msgstr/msgid from that line number here if the error
> > is not clear.)
> >     
>
> Ok, I fixed it:
>
> mf mf:~$ msgfmt -cv ./Desktop/po/totem.HEAD.fa.po 405 translated
> messages, 19 fuzzy translations, 73 untranslated messages.
>
> mf mf:~$ sudo msgfmt ./Desktop/po/totem.HEAD.fa.po
> -o /usr/share/locale-langpack/fa/LC_MESSAGES/totem.mo 
>
> But the problem still exist :(
>   
One thing that you do not mention is what distribution you are using to 
test your translations.
From the previous e-mails, you grabbed the PO files for what we call 
HEAD (or trunk), which can be slightly different from, let's say, the 
totem version you get in Ubuntu 8.04.
For example, in totem in Ubuntu 8.04, the original message could be 
something like "Skip _me: " but in the latest development version of 
Totem, it could have changed to "Skip _me:" (notice the space 
different). Thus, while a fully translated HEAD PO file is excellent for 
the new version of Ubuntu, for the current version some messages may not 
show up.

If you really want to have all messages appear as you have with your 
.HEAD.po files, you may want to compile the latest version of GNOME, 
using JhBuild.
However, this task is somewhat technical and requires resources in terms 
of disk space and bandwidth.

The typical workflow for (some?) translators is to translate as much as 
possible, and near the string freeze, you install a test/beta version of 
a distribution (such as Ubuntu). Because the messages between what is in 
the PO file and the Linux distribution will be ~100% identical, you can 
do easy and comfortable testing/quality control.

To sum up, continue translating and doing rough testing at the moment, 
and do the proper quality control near the string freeze time (around 
August/September?), using something like an Alpha version of Ubuntu of 
that time.

I hope this helps,
Simos