Re : [Inkscape-devel] 0.48 About Screen Contest - Developer voting time.
My vote for #3. #2 in second place.
De : john cliff <john.cliff@...5...> What happened to the font requirement for the draw freely tho?
It should at least be Open Source friendly...
BTW, I suggest that we don't translate the about screen for this version. The "Draw freely" text is not easy to change in the selected screens without damage, and I feel it is really unnecessary.
Regards. -- Nicolas
On 28/04/2010, at 6:40 AM, Nicolas Dufour wrote:
BTW, I suggest that we don't translate the about screen for this version. The "Draw freely" text is not easy to change in the selected screens without damage, and I feel it is really unnecessary.
I disagree. "Draw Freely" in English is completely meaningless to speakers of many languages. If it's the motto of Inkscape, then we need to translate it. Otherwise, why use it?
A text box/layer should be translatable: the string "Draw Freely" already exists in the PO file.
If this is difficult, then designers of splash screens need to be made aware of this requirement up front.
from Clytie
Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
Hi,
De : Clytie Siddall <clytie@...62...>
On 28/04/2010, at 6:40 AM, Nicolas Dufour wrote: I suggest that we don't translate the about screen for this version. The "Draw freely" text is not easy to change in the selected screens without damage, and I feel it is really unnecessary.
I disagree. "Draw Freely" in English is completely meaningless to speakers of many languages. If it's the motto of Inkscape, then we need to translate it. Otherwise, why use it?
Please see (and comment) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/463814.
The "Unimount" about screen is a typical case. "Draw Freely" is very well integrated in the drawing and will be very difficult to translate. Translating it will change the text length (or if we want to keep the same length, change to text size) and may not be as nice as the original screen with some translations.
Regards, -- Nicolas
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