Translating openSUSE

As intermediate piece I decided to translate openSUSE base system into Estonian. Surprisingly beginning was very fast and simple, it took some hours to read a bit wiki and get access to svn repository. After 2 weeks hard work 62% from about 25K strings is translated, 70% is the limit for including into release and there are 10 days left until end of first cycle. Files from elder modules (most of YaST) are very easy to translate because strings have excellent comments. I just found this not fair that only distribution with GOOD estonian translation was Mandriva. And as I've used SUSE since 6.2 release, it is my personal shame that SUSE is still untranslated. :)

new strings in m181

There are a lot of new strings in m181, mostly about Online Update: Added: et/po/extensions/source/update/check.po et/po/scp2/source/onlineupdate.po Modified: et/po/dbaccess/source/sdbtools/resource.po et/po/instsetoo_native/inc_openoffice/windows/msi_languages.po (*) et/po/officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI.po et/po/sfx2/source/appl.po et/po/sw/source/ui/dialog.po (*) et/po/svx/source/dialog.po I removed bogus entries from list (caused by translate tookit weirdness), the files marked with * may be bogus too.

Changed strings in m179

There are 3 changes: - one added string in both dbaccess/source/sdbtools/resource and fpicker/source/office - one removed string from svx/source/intro

changed strings in M178

As deadline for UI freeze is passed, I'll start blogging again about new or changed strings. :) In m178 two files were affected: - from readlicense_oo/docs/readme the string 'Last updated...' is removed - in svx/source/options three strings are fixed (in Tools.Options dialog)

Changed strings in m168

Two new strings in instset - about Thai language support. One string removed from svx/source/dialog.

Annoyance in readme

"HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't."

... and the same way we every and every time update the strings in readme when there is no updates really, because of changed date-field which makes whole string new and "fuzzy".

Here it is: "Last updated $Date: 2006/04/28 12:21:31 $". Sometimes I feel that there really is another way for including a date...

String changes in SRC_m163

First look was promising. Localize has generated a lot of new directories and files... all of them invalid. After Pavel has fixed this and uploaded new set of files, the output was more reasonable:

Modified:

- basctl/source/basicide.po

- dbaccess/source/ui/browser.po, misc.po

- filter/source/pdf.po

- framework/source/classes.po

- helpcontent2/source/text/scalc/01.po

- helpcontent2/source/text/shared/00.po, optionen.po

- helpcontent2/source/text/swriter/01.po, guide.po

- helpcontent2/source/text/shared.po

- officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI.po

- sd/source/ui/app.po

- sfx2/source/appl.po

- svx/source/dialog.po, tbxctrls.po

- wizards/source/formwizard.po

Most of changes were about enchanchements in PDF-export and new update-checking functionality (and according helpcontent changes).

I found a funny sentence in update-checking help:

"This command is available for the full versions of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and StarSuite only."

Interesting, do we have some limited version of OO.o? Correct were: "This command is available for OpenOffice.org and the full versions of StarOffice and StarSuite only."