On 6 February 2012 14:30, /dev/ammo42 <mickeytintincolle@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:59:50 -0500
> Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
>
>> On 6 February 2012 13:54, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Calvin, I responded to your
>> >> request for suggestions toward improving KControl. Let me
>> >> know when you need help with testing.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks! It's rather lengthy I need to review each of those
>> >> ideas.
>> >> Overall they look like valid choices. I like the idea of
>> >> separating
>> >> peripherals and other customizations. If not it's an 100%
>> >> agreement,
>> >> maybe a few small details.
>> >>
>> >> I am going to create a Etherpad with your ideas copied into
>> >> it. After
>> >> doing my own review I will be asking Trinity users and
>> >> developers for
>> >> further ideas and modifications.
>> >
>> > Okeydokey. How about a multi-phase approach?
>> >
>> > First address those items involving basic tree list reorganization.
>> > Those items require editing and creating some XML files but no code
>> > hacking.
>> >
>> > Second phase would be those items that require code hacking, such
>> > as moving group boxes from one location to another.
>> >
>> > Third phase involves renaming various categories. Although this
>> > sounds easy, I offer this phase last because of translations. Some
>> > of these should be straightforward, such as splitting Regional &
>> > Accessibility and Sound & Multimedia. Others will be a challenge,
>> > such as renaming Peripherals to Hardware and creating a new
>> > category named System Information. Maybe we do the best we can with
>> > various translation tools and hope for the best.
>> >
>> > The KControl tree list structure is defined in
>> > tdebase/applnk/kde-settings.menu. The individual tree list
>> > categories are named in various
>> > main/tdebase/applnk/kde-settings*.directory files. I haven't looked
>> > further to see how the sub items in each category are created.
>> >
>> > Darrell
>> >
>>
>> That seems like a good approach.
>>
>> As for Translations - what is the state of translations on Trinity in
>> general? I only use English so I am not really aware of it. How many
>> languages do we provide? do we have any translators willing to do
>> this?
> As of now Trinity translations are mostly the KDE 3.5.10 ones with very
> few updates, so most new Trinity strings aren't translated at all, and
> display in English instead. If and when I find the time I could update
> some French translations.
>>
>> Calvin
>>

I know many of our developers are international users. I wonder if we
could get some sort of collective effort going to help translate
strings.

Calvin