Thank you EBo for your great answer. I am surprised that LinuxCNC has more translations than it is declared. There is Russian translation and docs miss that! I asked my Russian friend, old LinuxCNC user (who reads Russian LinuxCNC forum a lot) if LinuxCNC has Russian translation and he answered No! This is a serious information gap. Translation might be incomplete, but it can help greatly.
No surprise there is no Lithuanian translation :) Valuable info. Good to start with. I raised my question because I thought I can create at least my custom panel(s) multilingual, which might be enough. Those panels display and control things specific to that machine. I use GladeVCP embedded on the right side of Axis most often, but sometimes QtQuickVCP or PyVCP on Machinekit too. Therefore, I would like to know which way is better for custom panels too. Going the long way for one and only machine might be uncomfortable.. I hope to find a way to edit and install the translation file without compiling whole linuxcnc. What is a good way to involve collaborators to the translation? 10/12/2016 12:56 PM, EBo rašė: > This is an excellent question, and I am sure there is plenty of people > who will support this in various ways. Now on to some technical issues, > tools, and solutions. > > A fair bit of work has already been done on 'internationalization' > (please see documentation and > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Internationalization for > specifics and examples). That said, I am sure that some of the UI's are > missing any internationalization support. One of the problems in the > past is that the UI's were written in any one of a number of different > tool chains -- including tcltk, gl, Qt, python binding, and I am not > sure what all. From the linuxcnc/src/po/README file I see that they > give some specific examples, and how to. There is current support for > 14 different languages and 3 extra regional dialects or additional > languages. What I do not know is if the current tools and > implementation can switch languages on the fly (ie by a pull down menu, > and refresh in the new language). It is possible that that > functionality already exists, but no one has updated it, or (which is > more likely) that the necessary low level functionality does not exist > in the tools used. I know that I tried to do exactly what you are > suggesting back in 2001 using Qt -- they were just coming out with that > support in their professional tools, but not in their free version, and > I was developing open-source tools for ecologists at the university (ie > not paid, and could not afford to pony up the $5K IIRC)... So to help > drill down into the question and how current implementations do not > support your needs please take a look at the URL above, play with > them a bit, and tell us where it is not working and what you would want > to change. Once we have that information we can have a discussion about > if the request is something that anyone wants to take on and/or support. > > One thing that would help us is if you tell us which UI you would like > to start with, and if you are looking to try to set it up on the fly or > just support the additional languages. > > I like your idea of setting up a UI which is purely graphical. There > is places where that will breakdown, but it could go a long way. For > that look at the current UI's, like Axis, and tell use what you would > change and why. > > Hope this helps, > > EBo -- > > On Oct 12 2016 12:21 AM, Marius Alksnys wrote: >> My integrated machines are used by different language speaking people >> quite often. Some of them speak / understand one language only. Thus >> there is a need to create UIs which could be understood by different >> spoken users. Currently there is a need for up to three languages on >> one UI. >> >> >> What is the best way to create and maintain such UIs or panels for >> LinuxCNC? >> >> >> My ideas: >> 1. Create UI without texts, just icons, numbers, other visual >> components. This includes various messages - warnings, errors, etc. >> Where to get suitable icons for that, how to adapt them, what >> practices >> to follow? >> 2. Let the user to choose the language (s)he prefers, for example, a >> group of radio buttons with flags / abbreviations and by using >> GladeVCP >> - create python script which changes labels and texts of controls at >> runtime depending on which language (or flag) button is activated. >> 3. Use HAL and connected mentioned radio button hal pins to every HAL >> "label"... Don't know how to do this yet. >> 4. Use some native GladeVCP locale methods and translation files (?). >> >> More ideas and suggestions how to realise this? >> >> How about the messages from NGC, from custom HAL components? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
