On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:18, Denis Prost <denis.prost@...> wrote: > > > Le 27/10/2010 09:31, Denis Prost a écrit : >> >> >> >> Le 26/10/2010 18:30, Denis Prost a écrit : >>> >>> >>> >>> Le 26/10/2010 17:51, Robert Xu a écrit : >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:32, Denis Prost<denis.prost@...> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Le 25/10/2010 23:00, Robert Xu a écrit : >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:37, Denis Prost<denis.prost@...> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can the trinity developers take care of that ? >>>>>>> >>>>>> I think you should be able to compare with other po files and add it >>>>>> yourself :P >>>>>> I'll test for any breakage, if you desire. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure I understand what you say. Do you mean adding new strings >>>>> one >>>>> by one by hand in the po file ? >>>>> First, I might miss some new strings doing it that way. >>>>> Secondly, each trinity translater will have to do that manual strings >>>>> adding >>>>> in his language po files. Seeing the number of languages trinity is >>>>> translated into, that seems to be a terrible waste of time. >>>>> A centralized process adding new strings to all po files in any >>>>> languages >>>>> would be a lot more efficient. I can't imagine there's no automatic way >>>>> to >>>>> achieve this. But unfortunately I don't know how and don't have much >>>>> time to >>>>> investigate. I hope someone on the list has some knowledge about that >>>>> topic. >>>>> >>>> hm, maybe Trinity could do something like Fedora does? >>>> https://translate.fedoraproject.org >>>> >>> I can't tell myself, but surely a clear translation process providing all >>> instructions needed would help. >>> (not forgetting that translators are just translators and may be very >>> ignorant besides !). >>> Regards, >>> >>> Denis >>> >> Maybe what we're looking for is here : >> >> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/kde-i18n-howto.html#SECTION00050000000000000000 >> especially chapter 3 about Makefile.am. >> As far as I understand (I just checked quickly) It seems that "make >> messages" should be run periodically on the source tree by its administrator >> to update the pot files, followed by some command to merge the new pot files >> with the existing corresponding po files for each language (at present time, >> the po files seem to exist only in kde-i18n directory as tarballs : maybe if >> they existed as untared in svn, it would be more easy to do the merging and >> then for the translators to update them. >> >> Regards, >> >> Denis > > As long as there is no centralized process to update the po files, I'm > trying to do it myself, but I don't know enough of the development tools to > achieve it. Maybe someone might help me : > I'd like to run "make messages" in kdebase/kicker source directory, but > there is no Makefile in it, only Makefile.am. How can I generate Makefile > from it, what command should I run ? > Thanks, > I recommend asking Timothy Pearson on how to do this. You can see this: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild and it'll tell you have to run make -f admin/Makefile.common.... Then from there I suppose you could look at Makefile.in and such. -- later, Robert Xu