Testing Nautilus 1.0.1 snapshot
- From: Dan Mueth <dan eazel com>
- To: Nautilus List <nautilus-list eazel com>,GNOME i18n list <gnome-i18n gnome org>
- Subject: Testing Nautilus 1.0.1 snapshot
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:16:40 -0800 (PST)
The Nautilus team is preparing Nautilus 1.0.1, which is a translation and
i18n release. We currently have a snapshot for 1.0.1 which we would like
people to test in various locales. Please report any bugs you find which
are related to running a localized version of Nautilus at
http://bugzilla.eazel.com .
Please follow these instructions:
1. SELECTING A LOCALE
Pick a Language/locale to adopt.
Language Name (locale in parentheses)
--------------------------
Swedish (sv)
German (de)
French (fr)
Norwegian (no)
Spanish (es_ES)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja_JP)
[...]
2. LATEST SCROLLKEEPER
Please grab the latest ScrollKeeper (0.2.0) here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11543
You will need this to have localized document categories in the
help sidebar. Note you will not get the localized categories if
there are no localized documents registered with ScrollKeeper.
3. BUILDING (optional)
If you are building Nautilus from source, make sure that
you type "unset LINGUAS" before you configure, build, and
install each of: nautilus, ammonite, gnome-vfs. Many
Linux distributions have this as their default.
For example, for eazel-hacking you would use:
$ cd-nautilus
$ unset LINGUAS
$ cg
$ make && make install
You should make sure you are running nautilus, ammonite, and
gnome-vfs from the stable branches:
package branch
--------- --------------
Nautilus nautilus-1
gnome-vfs gnome-vfs-1-0
ammonite ammonite-0-9-0
4. RPMS (optional)
For Red Hat 6.2 or 7.0:
You should first install Nautilus 1.0, along with all its
dependencies. Simply follow the instructions here:
http://www.eazel.com/download
Then upgrade the Nautilus RPMs to the 1.0.1 candidates from
here:
http://developer.eazel.com/download/candidate/RH6/
http://developer.eazel.com/download/candidate/RH7/
5. RUNNING NAUTILUS
Run Nautilus with the following commands:
$ killall -9 nautilus ; nautilus-clean.sh -x
$ export LANG=<loc> LANGUAGE=<loc> LC_ALL=<loc>
GDM_LANG=<loc>
$ nautilus
Where <loc> is one of: ja_JP, es_ES, de, fr, it
6. IDENTIFYING BUGS
We are looking for any bugs which occur in the localized
version of Nautilus except for:
* Strings which appear untranslated because they have
not been translated in the po file, but which are
properly marked for translation.
We are especially looking for any crashes which occur or
functionality which is broken. We are also interested in
any dialogs or part of the UI which is broken in certain
locales.
Note that there has not been very much real-world testing
of Nautilus in many locales. Please report all bugs you
find so we can fix them as soon as possible.
7. IDENTIFYING IF A STRING IS TRANSLATED
If you find a string which is untranslated and would like
to identify if it is marked for translation, you will need
to look in the po file for that module. For example, for
French you look in <module>/po/fr.po. It lists pairs of
English strings followed by the translated string. For example,
a translated message appears as:
#: components/hardware/Nautilus_View_hardware.oaf.in.h:4
msgid "Hardware view"
msgstr "Vue du matériel"
While an untranslated string appears as:
#: components/hardware/Nautilus_View_hardware.oaf.in.h:4
msgid "Hardware view"
msgstr ""
If you do not find the string in the po file at all, then
the string is not marked for translation and should be
reported as a bug. Note that strings may appear in
any of the three modules: Nautilus, gnome-vfs, ammonite
8. SMOOTH FONTS
Some locales, such as Japanese and Korean, require smooth
fonts which are not typically present on standard distributions.
Without these fonts, the sidebar will show "???" in place of
the correct characters. This is not a bug in Nautilus.
9. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at http://bugzilla.eazel.com and mark them as
being part of the "Internationalization (i18n)" component.
Please note that the only locales which are 100% translated are:
Spanish (es, es_ES)
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
Norwegian (no)
Swedish (sv)
German (de)
For all other locales, you should expect a certain amount of untranslated
strings. If you would like to test if a string is marked for translation,
one easy way is to run Nautilus in one of these 5 locales and see if it
appears localized.
Thanks for your help in making Nautilus as stable and fully-localized as
possible.
Eli <eli@eazel.com>
Dan <dan@eazel.com>
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