[Mythtv-translators] Time to get started with MythTV 0.24 translations

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nicolas Riendeau <knight at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert!
>
> On 9/7/2010 1:37 PM, Robert McNamara wrote:
>>
>> 2010/9/7 Roger Mårtensson<roger.martensson at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Talking about theme strings. How will it work with translations when we
>>> will
>>> be able to "download" themes with the themebrowser?
>>>
>>> It looks like it will be distributed with 0.24.
>>
>> This is transparent to themers.  The themestrings are kept in the
>> translation file of the core, not distributed with the theme itself.
>
> I could be wrong but I think he's referring to strings which are not already
> present in the core themes...
>
> These won't be translated unless a way is found to somehow merge additionnal
> translation files (not very practical) or unless it's done the old way, in
> the themes themselves (I think the support for this is still there but
> that's not a very good idea, it will only confuse some translators which
> will want to translate the core themes in the same way).
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> Nick

The core themes (ie, those provided by our project) are translated in
the core themestrings-- the third party themes aren't (but they never
have been, either).

Robert