[Mythtv-translators] [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #9128: [PATCH

[Nicolas Riendeau]

Hi!

On 10/22/2010 1:23 PM, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
> I haven't tried Pootle yet... It does look like it support Qt files
> natively which makes it interesting...

I had a chance to play with it and its overall a nice program...

It does currently have one major blocker as far as usage with MythTV is 
concerned, it is currently unable to deal with plurals in Qt ts files.

re: http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727

(This ticket was opened by what I believe to be one of the developers 
when I asked for help on their IRC channel. He was one of the two ops 
present at the time, the other was the developer this ticket was 
initially assigned to.)

There are other things that must be looked into but this is the major 
issue I can see with this application right now.

>>
>> This would give users a simple, uniform interface which is easy to work
>> with.
>
> Qt Linguist is pretty easy to use and does offer a simply, uniform
> interface which is easy to work wih.

The point there was more than Qt Linguist is easy to work with and gets 
the job done.

It is however a lot more difficult to distribute work with it as 
everybody has its own little copy of the translation on his pc.

That doesn't mean its impossible to do though (for the French 
translation we had to exchange a lot of emails (using a mailing list) 
and we have our own SVN repository which send us a diff file after each 
commit). Since we are now mostly in maintenance more we mostly rely on 
the diff files to see what the other has committed and possibly comment. 
Most of the sentences we have to translate now resemble sentences we 
already have translated and Qt Linguist notices this and proposes us 
possible translations.

I can easily understand however that some people would prefer using a 
web application with a single copy of the translation that many users 
can update at the same time. For translations which still have a lot of 
strings left to translate I can see this as a definite advantage.

This is why we, Kenni and I, have started looking at these web applications.

We have to make sure the applications we are looking at produces files 
which are 100% compatible with Qt, that they don't cause translations 
issues or even worse, application issues...

Anything that supports Qt ts files natively has a big advantage over the 
rest as far as I am concerned.

I am sure both Kenni and I will take a closer look at Pootle once the 
plural problem will have been fixed.

Have a nice day!

Nick