July 2023 - Inkscape Translators

Inkscape 1.3 released!
by Marc Jeanmougin 23 Jul '23

23 Jul '23

================ = Inkscape 1.3 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.3 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2023/07/23/inkscape-launches-version-13-focus-org… and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.3 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following more than one year of development after the 1.2 major release. The highlights of this release are: * Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering * Shape builder (NEW) - a new tool for building complex shapes (Boolean tool) * Improved On-Canvas Pattern Editing * Pattern Editor (NEW) * Page margins & bleed * Document Resources Dialog (NEW) * Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and of an optional persistent snap bar * Font Collections (NEW) * Syntax highlighting in XML Editor * LPE dialog - Redesign * Better PDF import * Many crash & bug fixes We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.3/Inkscape_1.3.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Inkscape 1.3 string freeze! Submit your translations until July 14
by Maren Hachmann 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Hi all! We are now in string freeze for Inkscape 1.3, which is due to be released around July 20th. You should now start to work on translating all those new strings. INSTRUCTIONS ------------ * Get the 1.3.x branch po file from https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/1.3.x/download?job=tr… * Notify people on this mailing list that you are working on it. If possible, please share a link to your in-progress file (e.g. if you work on a branch in your own Inkscape repository copy on GitLab), to invite collaboration. You can also reach out to other translators of your own language, to avoid that people translate the same strings. This could lead to developers not knowing which translation file to merge, and ultimately, to your work not arriving in Inkscape 1.3, if that cannot be resolved in time. * Translate it using your favorite translation software and keep your public copy updated. * To get it into Inkscape 1.3.x, either open a merge request to the 1.3.x branch or open a bug report at https://inkscape.org/report . * The latest date to submit your translation is July 14. It is much better, though, to aim for submitting at least one week before that final date, to have enough time to sort out any issues with your file, or with other people's work. * If you are not also translating for the master branch at the same time (the program 'Lokalize' would allow for that, for example), please ask developers to also add your changes to the master branch when you submit your work. ----------------- There's a lot of nice new stuff in Inkscape 1.3! See release notes draft for some context help: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3 If you have any questions about the meaning / context / place of appearance of one of the new strings, please ask in the chat at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation (and if there's any info I forgot to mention here, please ask here or there) Happy translating! Regards Maren

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No translation platform?
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

Hello together, I'm new here and not a regular Inkscape user. I'm not primarily interested into translating Inkscape. But as member of the maintenance team of a FOSS software [1] I'm interested in sharing experience and opinions about translation and localization. Accidentally I recognized that Inkscape does not use a platform for translation / localization of its UI and content. Because of the age and size of your project I was suprissed about that fact. IMHO because of that it is hard for non-technical persons to contribute. Did you ever considered using a translation platform (e.g. Weblate or some of the known commercial platforms)? if so why did you decide against it? If you are interested I can share my experience with Weblate if you want. It is far away from perfect but does its job and is real free software. Kind Christian [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>

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Notice: small string updates in 1.3.x branch
by Maren Hachmann 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Hi all! Marc has merged many of your translations to the 1.3.x branch today! Congrats and thank you to everyone who has contributed! Along with the translations, the merge also contained a few small string fixes (mainly a big bunch of paper formats that had been missing from translations, and disambiguations for otherwise untranslatable strings that referred to two different things at once. 54 new strings in all). You can get the updated file from https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/master/download?job=t… Have a great week! Maren

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Documentation repo ready for translation! / Translation status overview
by Maren Hachmann 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Hi all! I've just used these last three beautiful summer days to ... update Inkscape tutorials and the keyboard shortcut file. (I'm so glad it's done now...) This means that your translation updates for tutorials, man page and keyboard shortcut files are now welcome in the documentation repository! The active branch there is: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation/-/tree/1.3.x It has several subdirectories and several po(t) files: * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation/-/tree/1.3.x/keys * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation/-/tree/1.3.x/man * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation/-/tree/1.3.x/tutori… (subdirectories 'advanced' to 'tracing') Some screenshots in those folders also need an update - I have removed the outdated ones, so you can easily see whether you need to make a new one. So, if you have time (and maybe if your weather isn't quite as nice as ours here...), it would be helpful if you could tackle these items! --------------------- In a day or two, statistics about the current translation status of everything related to the 1.3.x branch will be available publicly from https://inkscape.org/doc/devel/translations-statistics-1.3.x.html This does not include any not-yet-merged MRs you made. --------------------- Kind Regards Maren

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