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
