Re: Updated Package Descriptions Translations - Volunteers?

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:48:27AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

> > One of the things I'm working on is package descriptions for all of
> > GNOME-- those short little one-sentence things that tell you what libfoo
> > does when you look at it in dselect or whatever.  A lot of these
> > descriptions are getting old, and many were never very helpful in the
> > first place (Package: Foo. Description: the Foo application).  So, I've
> > gone through and rewritten them all.
 
> Could it be put up int gettext .po file format?
> And then maintained in the Gnome CVS ?
> Then I think it will get good attention from translators.

It should also be a nice idea to also add a longer descriptive text; those
could then be used for the summary and description of the rpm packages
(I suppose deb format also has small and long description fields, but I don't
know if they can be translated)

-- 
Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga

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