Re: New GNOME Website - Translation

[Carsten Senger <senger rehfisch de>]

Hi Kenneth,

--On Montag, Juni 15, 2009 13:42:29 +0200
Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com> wrote:

[...]

> However, we're unsure how graphics/pictures are translated.
>
>
> One possibility for handling localised graphics/pictures is the one
> currently used for the software documentation. It has the obvious
> advantage that we (translators) know it. So what happens is that in a
> "po" folder there is a subfolder "C" that contains the orginals, the
> english files, within that is another subfolder "figures" that contain
> the figures used in the documentation. So what we do to localise them is
> that under the po folder we create a subfolder for our language "da" and
> under that we create a similar subfolder called "figure" and then we
> simply place localised graphics/pictures in that folder with names
> identical to the originals, and then they will automaticalle get used.
>
> Since this structure is already used with xml2po I guess it would be easy
> to extend.
>
>
> The speciality with Plone is that a file is not only a file. It's a file
> with
> additionally (Meta)data used in the webpage (Title, Description, Tags,
> ...)
> The glue code between plone and the translation repositories has to deal
> with
> the storage part.
>
>
>
> Yes. But I don't see how that makes it more difficult. Put metadata in
> the po-file along with the rest of the document and the figure file in a
> folder with a unique (and non-localised) name. Then when fetching
> translations, get the translations from the po-file, check if the
> localised figure exist in a certain folder, if it does, use it, and if it
> does not, use the english one.

Yes, that's a plan. As Jens and I are Plone guyes, the question was an
attemp to get thoughts or an recommendation from someone who knows gnomes
translation
workflow :-) and an easy way to connect the two.

[...]

> Anyway. I hope this was the kind of feedback you guys were looking for.

Yes, thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it very much.

..Carsten