February 2007 - Inkscape Translators

Re: [Inkscape-translator] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Project Status
by Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

On 2/28/07 jiho wrote: > Having an official manual distributed with Inkscape would greatly > enhance its dissemination. You are right: an official manual should be available. I wouldn't like to undermine Tavmjong's effort, however, and I see nothing bad in Kevin's usinginkscape.com. But: a) a user manual should be available without Internet access; b) a user manual should be available in as many languages as possible. c) a user manual has to be written in such a way that it could be used for context sensitive help; d) a user manual browser should have a search function; e) a user manual should be "aware" of existing tutorials. The e) is an issue maker, since our tutorials are SVG files, not just illustrated hypertext. The idea behind SVG is great. But what is the real situation? Do users actually appreciate it? I've heard quite a dozen of times users complaining that opening a tutorial takes too much time and noone ever mentioned how much fun it is to be able to draw right in a tutorial. So, if we want Inkscape's documentation to rock the world, we need to know: 1. Do we have human resources to maintain a good thorough user manual? If we do, what would be the best way to organize this work? 2. Do we have human resources to maintain translations (Cedric's & Kevin's XML file in SVN is about 500 Kbyte large)? If we do, what would be the best way to organize their work? 3. Is it possible to reuse GIMP's approach to context help? 4. What should we use as user manual's browser? My thoughts on some of the above. 1. We do not have such human resources as of now. We have neither one single coordinator of the documentation effort, nor instant contributors. If I am wrong, please stand up high and blame me :) 2 . We _might_ have human resources to provide translation of the manual into _some_ languages. I know that at least German and Brazilian communities are quite active, dunno for others. There is no way a single person can instantly maintain such a huge translation, stay sane and be able to work to pay the bills :) A team of 2-3 people is a minimum. That's what I know from my experience with translation of GIMP's docs. Please share your thoughts. Cheers, Alexandre

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Inkscape Project Status
by Bryce Harrington 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Just to give some visibility into some of the work bubbling away these days: Cairo renderer: Bulia has taken point on investigation of conversion to Cairo. Some tough problems have been uncovered but we're gaining a clearer picture of what needs done. Presently this looks like it will require an all at once brute force approach, rather than incremental refactoring. If so, we'll need to reach a decision on how to undertake that while minimizing disruption to SVN HEAD users. Build system: There is definitely a concensus that our current build system sucks. Options include CMAKE, Bob's buildtool, or just a cleaned up automake. We really need to have interested parties mind meld and find a single solution. Version control system: Mental has been experimenting with git and trying to get it to operate with svn. This study is still very early on, but if it works out well, one day we may begin encouraging developers to use git. Bug tracking: I have been experimenting with use of Mantis with the goal of replacing our SF bug tracker. It looks good, but the principle issue is how to migrate the bugs and their history from SF to Mantis. I'm also interested in seeing if it can be combined well with Drupal, maybe along with Pootle. Any drupalheads out there? Manual: We've got a good unofficial non-free manual/book and several [semi-]official incomplete free manuals. There is discussion about if efforts can be combined to produce a good official free manual. Anyway, I've probably missed something, but I think that covers the pending changes that are percolating. Most of these would benefit from discussion, so we can make sure there is a rough concensus favoring the change - so if you have concerns about any of these changes, now's a good chance to bring 'em up. Bryce

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Last call for translations' updates for 0.45
by Josef Vybiral 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello fellow translators, this is the last call before we mark 0.45 as final. Please, if you still have got any updates to translations for 0.45 left, put them to the sf.net patch tracker and assign them to me(cwebb) or Arpad. We will apply them as soon as possible to get the release on time. So far we increased the number of significantly translated files to 27 which is really good number. And if my memory does not fail on me, there is at least one translation left, the Esperanto one :) Thanks everyone for your hard work. Sincerely Josef Vybíral a.k.a cornelius

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Some new languages with (a few) translated strings
by Colin Marquardt 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hi, Rosetta has some new languages for Inkscape at https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/inkscape/+pots/ink… Worthwhile maybe be en_AU, eo, id, ro. However, while I have an account on launchpad and tried to export the po files, the web interface told me that I'd get e-mails which didn't arrive yet, a few hours since requesting them. Maybe someone else can try that too. Cheers Colin

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Fwd: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po
by ValessioBrito 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ValessioBrito <valessio@...5...> Date: 01/02/2007 14:19 Subject: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po To: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net ( I'm not subscribe? ) No render simbol " º " = 90º in: 90° #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2170 msgid "Rotate 9_0° CCW" msgstr "Girar 9_0° graus" #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2171 msgid "Rotate selection 90° counter-clockwise" msgstr "Girar a seleção 90° graus no sentido anti-horário" I believe that all the languages. view attach. -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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Release announcements
by Bryce Harrington 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi all, Rejon and I have sent out announcements to the various (English) sites we normally notify, but if you know of more places - especially non-English sites - please send them a copy of the announcement too. There are a number of translations of the release announcement available here: http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/ReleaseAnnounce045 Thanks, Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Packaging & Marketing for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:26:14PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I've just posted the source tarball for 0.45 to sourceforge. Packagers, > please create the packages from this. :-) > > (Also, please consider gpg signing your release packages - there are > some notes for this on the CreatingDists page in Wiki.) > > It's also time for us to create the release announcement for this > release. Anyone interested in helping me on this? > > Bryce Here's the draft of the release announcement: http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/ReleaseAnnounce045 Bryce

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Translating "regular user" in french
by Romain Thouvenin 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Hello translators, I just started translated the FAQ <http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/FrFAQ> in french, but I'm not sure how I should translate "regular users" in question 1.4. Any idea ? Thanks for your help, and feel free to review what I've written so far. Romain

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Inkscape 0.45 Hard Freeze & String Freez
by Arpad Biro 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Hi, > I have some questions related to some strings used in Inkscape, could > somebody ask the developer which is the meaning of the following? > Also, help form other translators is welcome! > msgid "Nudge vertically by pixels" > msgid "Nudge horizontally by pixels" No string like that anymore. Please download latest from SVN. > msgid "Backspace" I translated it as "delete a char backwards" > "Stack scans on top of one another (no gaps) instead of or tiling (usually " > "with gaps)" Stack: put on top of each other Tiling: filling with tiles > msgid "Increase to make the pen drag behind, as if slowed by inertia" > -- drag behind? Be slow to react > msgid "RGB Barrel" I translated it as "rotate RGB channels" > msgid "Lorem ipsum" Latin, I think we shouldn't translate. Try it out, it inserts some text starting with "Lorem ipsum". > msgid "Extrude" I translated it as "pull out" > msgid "Pattern along Path" Repeatedly draw a pattern following a path as if the pattern were the stroke for that path. Screenshot: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-patternalongpath.… > msgid "Jitter nodes" Something like "move each one randomly" -- "scatter", "disperse", "diffuse" > msgid "Straighten Segments" Make segments more straight (less curved) Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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tutorial-tips.xml
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi, Just to make sure we don't screw up with tutorials. Yesterday tutorial-tips.xml was updated to fix mentioning Gaussian blur as a not available feature. The change is tiny -- just 2 or 3 sentences. If you haven't updated your translation and you still have time for it, please do so. If you won't be in time, we will still have 0.45.1, I guess ;-) Alexandre

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