Re: [orca-list] Orca localizations

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
Orca is an integral part of gnome meaning gnome iinfrastructure is used 
for maintaining translations and related work.
There is an online helper app called damned lies at 
https://l10n.gnome.org/ . People using this app are grouped into teams 
by language they are translating gnome apps into e.g. here is page on 
bulgarian team listing its members, links to additional bulgarian 
community specific resources etc.... https://l10n.gnome.org/teams/bg/ . 
I see you've already joined the team. There is only a team leader and 
you in this team. So the team leader is the only person who can commit 
your work to the respective git repository. If I were you I would look 
around the bulgarian community linked on the team profile page and try 
to get in contact with the bulgarian team leader.
As for the translation it self you will need to contribute translations 
to various other gnome modules in order to get translated all the 
control names their states and similar. I think gtk plus and ATK are 
most critical ones. GTK plus also includes some common dialogs such as 
open dialog, find dialog and many many others you will later recognize 
as you will become more used to gnome applications. I am afraid this 
approach is verry unlikelly to change as gnome project has designers, 
developers and translators. As far as I can understand designers and 
translators are expected to be able to target multiple applications 
whenewer possible because of the integration gnome technologies provide.

Here is orca translation into bulgarian then: 
https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/orca/master/po/bg

I haven't yet experienced localizing the documentation so I can't 
comment on that my self.
Unfortunatelly translating gnome apps is usually not a paid job and 
there are multiple teams where contributions are lacking. I have tried 
to help in my team here and there translating some bits and pieces 
besides orca and related modules and I plan to do something in the next 
development cycle as well.

Greetings

Peter

On 06.01.2015 o 06:51 Zahari Yurukov wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm currently updating the Bulgarian localization of Orca. I've
> translated the user guide as well and I'm now in process of finetuning
> all this before submitting to the translation system.
> I grabbed the source code from the Orca's git repository and installed
> Orca from Master in my home folder, then copied my modified orca.mo
> where it can find it.
> So far so well, but some of the strings are still in English, despite
> I'm sure I have them translated, namely the names of the controls -
> checkbox, button, etc.
> Strangely enough, I get different results in some applications - in
> Orca's settings dialogs I get no translation of the control types at
> all, but in Thunderbird and Firefox I get some other translation.
> So i suspect that Orca takes the translation from the application (or
> the gui library) in question, and I'm not sure that is what has been
> intended.
> But if it is intentional, in order to fix it I would have to go and
> fix the translation in all those places in which it is broken or
> non-existent.
> So I think it is more practical for Orca to use its own translation
> for the controls - the one that it already has.
>
> I have one more question - how can I compile the documentation, so I
> could test it as well?
> I've copied it to Orca's source directory under help/bg but it does
> not compile automatically when I run make.
> I've tryed to inspect the makefiles, but I'm a novice in build systems
> and I don't know where to look, so I couldn't find anything related
> and thought I should ask here.
>
> P.S. When is the deadline for including translations in Orca 3.15? Do
> you include translation updates in maintenance releases like 3.15.1,
> 3.15.2, etc?
>
> Best wishes,
> Zahari
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