Category Archives: l10n

i18n Semantics Cheat Sheet

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

For quite some time when applying formatting in GUI development one either needs to apply directly visual HTML markup or some sort of odd plain text formatting. Thankfully the internationalization system supports more sensible ways of doing this, in particular … Continue reading →

Posted in kde, kubuntu, l10n, timelord, ubuntu | 5 Comments

KDE MM + Edu Sprint 2010 in XRandr

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

And what a sprint that was! To only mention some of the highlights: cheese 500 people (well, almost) group hugs extended group hugs (that is when the huggers can’t breathe anymore) 216 bootles of beer an engagement strong visions a … Continue reading →

Posted in amarok, fluffy, kde, kubuntu, l10n, social, ubuntu | 7 Comments

Ooops, we did it again

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

This is a response to http://soliverez.com.ar/drupal/node/103 To spare you the time for reading: it’s basically about how translations are broken in Kubuntu jaunty even though KDE 4.3* is installed which should have fixed the brokeness and that is no good … Continue reading →

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Improving Kubuntu’s l10n + Icon making

Posted on June 30, 2009 by

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2009-June/002964.html The best mail in all of June Which made me create: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kubuntu-dev-tools/kde-l10n-orphans-parser … a fancy ruby script to parse KDE’s process_orphans.txt file in order to track po movements (which need to be applied manually to the Launchpad templates), the … Continue reading →

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Facts about Rosetta and Kubuntu l10n

Posted on April 22, 2009 by

Facts Kubuntu (needs to) import KDE’s translations (+po templates, +desktop file translations, +desktop file po templates) into Launchpad’s translations system Rosetta Those translations then can be changed and/or enhanced Changed translations don’t automagically get overriden by a new upstream import … Continue reading →

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