Re: Rethinking "Supported language"

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists googlemail com>]

2008/2/19 Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>:

>   2.  Developers will generally use those programs in English anyway. I dare
>       to say that there is not a single Dutch speaking user that wants to a
>       program such as Glade or Accerciser in Dutch. Translating lots of
>       strings that will never be visible to users is just a waste of time.
>       Note that most translation teams have very limited resources.


A group of people to consider is educators/students. Those generally
use their own language, and would tend to follow tools that are
localised, so localising the tools makes sense for them.


Djihed



>   3.  Since those programs contains more than 3000 strings (3144 according
>       to my last count), they account for a substantial part of the total
>       number of strings (somewhere in the around 40.000). This very
>       negatively impacts the percentage indicating the translation coverage.
>
> My proposal is: only use the modules from the developer platform, desktop
> and administration tools when calculating the 80% coverage statistic (i.e.
> all module sets but the developer tools).
>
> What do you think?
>
>   mvrgr, Wouter
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