On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:57:11PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Keld J�rn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > the problem is too small for me to bother doing i18n, e.g.
> > > handling of message translations and handling of different
> > > keyboard maps, since all newbies go through cdrom.img which is
> > > 100% automatic.
> > 
> > I was not thinking of getting all the i18n messages on a special
> > boot.img just for special booting. It was only the keyboard.
> 
> When doing i18n, if you do the keyboard you're sure people want
> the messages also.

Probably, but I could live without the i18n on the boot.img.

> > And this was indeed primarily meant for testers. I find it very
> > annoying and I make a lot of keying errors to try to remember
> > all of the US keys on my danish keyboard. It takes me longer to test
> > things with this, and I am not the only tester that uses normal
> > non-us keyboards. The keys of my keyboard are in my fingers,
> > I do not think about them. So when a key like - or / are
> > placed differently it severely slows down my typing.
> 
> I understand that it bothers you, but sorry, I won't do it.

OK, but if you then could do the selection in a directory
so I do not have to type in those long ISO image names, then
I also could be better off.

>  
> > My other request was for all i18n to be on the cooker distribution.
> > This is not because I do not understand english, but because
> > I have used quite some time of my wee hours to translate
> > specific Mandrake software into danish. And if I should have
> > any chance of testing my work (of which I do expect Mandrake
> > to also benefit from, in the Danish market) i need it on the
> > cooker distribution. If not, then the only go I have for it
> > is on the official release. If MandrakeSoft wants a quality product in
> > other marketplaces than the US, France and germany, then you
> > should have a plan for doing QA on these languages. And then better
> > include them all, I think.
> 
> Well, all i18n is on the cooker distro. What do you mean? 

specs are not there. kde and gnome are not there. I can understand
that gnome and kde is gone, but I cannot really do QA on the
installation for translation if it is not there. It was just a
suggestion, if you want translations of the installation to be tested.

> [gc@bi ~/rpm] rpm -qpi /RPMS/locales-da-2.3.1.2-8mdk.i586.rpm 
> Name        : locales-da                   Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 2.3.1.2                           Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> Release     : 8mdk                          Build Date: Fri Feb 22 16:41:16 2002
> Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com
> Group       : System/Internationalization   Source RPM: locales-2.3.1.2-8mdk.src.rpm
> Size        : 797993                           License: GPL
> Packager    : Mandrake Linux Team <http://www.mandrakeexpert.com>
> Summary     : Base files for localization (Danish)
> Description :
> These are the base files for Danish language localization; you need
> it to correctly display 8bits Danish characters, and for proper
> alphabetical sorting and representation of dates and numbers according
> to Danish language conventions.

Yes, included in beta3.

> [gc@bi ~/rpm] rpm -qpi /RPMS/kde-i18n-da-2.2.2-2mdk.noarch.rpm 
> Name        : kde-i18n-da                  Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 2.2.2                             Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> Release     : 2mdk                          Build Date: Sat Feb 23 01:37:32 2002
> Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com
> Group       : Graphical desktop/KDE         Source RPM: 
>kde-i18n-da-2.2.2-2mdk.src.rpm
> Size        : 6561052                          License: GPL
> Packager    : Mandrake Linux Team <http://www.mandrakeexpert.com>
> URL         : http://www.kde.org/
> Summary     : Danish language support for KDE
> Description :
> Danish language support for KDE.

It is not on beta3.

best regards
keld

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