OPW Report #4 – week 4nd-5rd

Following reviews – translations in Greek language have been completed the last two weeks within the OPW:

Extra GNOME Applications (stable)

UI Translations:

latexila, gnote, gthumb, metacity, GNOME Applets, network-manager-openconnect

Documentation:

tomboy, geary, GNOME Applets • Invest Applet Manual , gnome-commander

Extra GNOME Applications

UI Translations:

geary, glom • UI translations, Banshee Music Player, evolution-ews, gedit-plugins,

gnome-commander, gnome-power-manager, glom • Example App: Small business, evolution-rss, gnote, gthumb, latexila, network-manager-openconnect

GNOME Applets, metacity, gnome-panel, gbrainy, california, ekiga, notification-daemon, telegnome, nautilus-sound-converter, gnome-dvb-daemon, ontv, network-manager-vpnc, libcryptui, gupnp-tools, pybliographer, gnome-search-tool, Rhythmbox Music Player, gnome-schedule, gnome-subtitles, libwnck, gparted, krb5-auth-dialog, meld, nautilus-actions, Pan Newsreader, network-manager-openvpn, shotwell, tasks, chronojump, genius, gcompris, hitori,

Documentation:

geary, gnome-commander, gthumb, nanny, Rhythmbox Music Player, GNOME Applets • Character Palette Manual, ocrfeeder, libgnome-media-profiles, f-spot,

gbrainy,gedit-plugins, dasher, sound-juicer, gparted, frogr, GNOME Applets • Disk Mounter Manual, GNOME Applets • CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor Manual, GNOME Applets • Command Line Manual, genius, gtkmm-documentation, xchat-gnome, nautilus-actions

GNOME-Office Productivity Applications

UI Translations:

glabels, gnumeric • Functions, gnumeric • UI translations, goffice, planner, dia,

External Dependencies (GNOME)

UI Translations:

libgda , libgsf

Plans for the next week:

It seems that I have an extra week for version 3.14 and this is great, since I want to pay particular attention to those files.

OPW Report #3 – week 2nd-3rd

Having many translators contributing in our local GNOME Translation Team is of course a fortunate fact. The difficulty however, which generally handles such a multitudinous group, is that everyone has his own way of expression and gives different matches on several terms.

The last few days, and on the occasion of the forthcoming translations within the OPW, we reopened a discussion in the mailing list of our Team Members, to finalize some issues that concern the localization and correct, review and develop our existing glossary at http://wiki.gnome.gr/doku.php?id=translation:terms. Also, a handy glossary tool to support searching, filtering and the possibility of adding terms has been created at  http://gnome.gr/glossary/ with the invaluable help of committer Tom Tryfonidis. Many thanks to mentor Efstathios Iosifidis and all other team members who participated in this effort!!

This is a very important step, which every Translation Team should go through occasionally. 

The goal is to deliver the same style and standardized terms on translations, so that each file, and in the final the whole work, provides precision and consistency to the local end user experience. 

Meanwhile, following reviews – translations have been completed the last two weeks within the OPW:

GNOME Infrastructure

UI Translations:

Damned Lies

GNOME Web site • Static content

jhbuild

GNOME Library Web site

GNOME Web site • Dynamic content - partially

(Since "GNOME Web site • Dynamic content"  is the largest file that needs to be reviewed and translated (3653 messages — 96761 words), and in agreement with the mentor, we decided to partially go on with it each week, in order to keep the time schedule of the other translations.)

Documentation:

gnomemm-website

jhbuild

GNOME Release Notes 3-12

GNOME 3.12 (stable)

UI Translations:

Eye of GNOME

GNOME 3.14 (development)

UI Translations:

Eye of GNOME 

Extra GNOME Applications (stable)

UI Translations:

Banshee Music Player

easytag

evolution-ews

geary

gedit-plugins

glom • UI translations

gnome-commander

gnome-power-manager

seahorse-nautilus 
gnome-panel
network-manager-pptp 

Translation Programs (PO file editors)

As mentioned in my previous post you can use a single text editor in order to translate a .PO file. However, it’s very helpful and easier for a simple (non programmer) translator to use a PO file editor instead, which gives much more automation, has a better and organized look and shows only things a translator needs to see.

Currently I use PoEdit for my translations, since it is simple and easy to use.

After a quick search, I found many PO editors available such as Virtaal, Gtranslator, Lokalize, OmegaT, GNU Gettext, GTed, betterpoeditor, Gorm and others.

Although all seem to do the same job, they have not the same features, each has its own ways of presenting and means of editing different elements of a message and many of them have extra helping tools like Translation memory, Glossary, Spell-checking etc.

Last week I tested some of them just to see how they would work for my workflow.

I summarized their characteristics on following table:   

 

As you can see the decision on which editor to choose for your work is not an easy one and each has pros and cons to be considered depending on your translation requirements.

I’m very glad I did all this research because I finally realized, that PoEdit may be simple to use, but has too few features for my needs, so I consider changing it with the Gtranslator or Virtaal application, which I can say both impressed me.