Re: Introducing library.gnome.org

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 31 juillet 2007 �1:36 +0200, Frederic Peters a �it :
> Hello all, and thanks for your work,
> 
> I have been working on library.gnome.org since GUADEC and just merged
> my changes from my local bzr branch into the library-web module of
> GNOME Subversion.  It should soon go live on library.gnome.org, there
> is currently a preview release available at http://lgo.0d.be.

Hi Fred,

Great job, amazing!

> It doesn't have many strings to translate (7) but has some
> documentation pages written using gnome-doc-utils (in data/pages/).
> 
> This is all standard things for you, is this possible to add this
> module, with both po/ and documentation, to damned-lies so it gets
> translated ?

Done, it should appear soon in
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/library-web
referenced from Extra release.

> Also, I am displaying a list of languages in the right column, it uses
> data/languages.xml which I created from gdm/gui/gdmlanguages.c, but it
> misses some languages, and thus displays the two-letter code instead.
> Those languages are Arabic (ar) and Panjabi (pa).
> 
> data/languages.xml has a really simple structure,
>   <languages>
>     <lang code="sq_AL">Shqip</lang>
>     ...
>   </languages>
> you just have to add a line.

You may have used the language list of Damned Lies [1], with the
advantages that language names are already localized, but I don't know
if this is easily doable.

> Library.gnome.org is split between documentation for users and
> documentation for developers (will later also have a sysadmin
> section); for developers, I am displaying both translated and English
> documentation (since API references are all in English); but for
> users, I am only displaying the translated documentation, which means
> some or most of the documents are not displayed.  (for example Dutch
> has no translation for Eye of GNOME, thus its "grafisch" section is
> limited to Evince).  Do you have any suggestion for improvement ?
> Listing English documentation below ?

Maybe you should show English when there's no localized manual, but if a
language page show more than 90% of the doc in English, the user will
probably get frustrated, so I'm not sure about this.
I still need some time to think about it.

Claude

[1]
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/damned-lies/trunk/translation-teams.xml.in