> 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 > Sorry, I do not know how to do this either. I never was involved with the translation arm of KDE, so it's just something I never learned to do. Tim