On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:56:46 +0100 BohwaZ <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if there is way to translate the Fossil web interface? > > Is it planned? That would be nice for us, non-english speaking users. I disagree.
Translation to several languages would mean bloat. That might be okay for an already bloated project like a compiler suite (though I disagree with their localization as well) but not for a tool which has self-containment and low footprint as one of its top selling points. Possibly the way to go is to create a separate (CGI?) application that would implement a "rich" webserver around fossil (by hooking it via JSON API if I understood its intent correctly). Such a project would also be a good point to channel the energy of the folks admiring the "rich client" paradigm with flashy and shiny stuff in the UI. Another issue with translated stuff is that often one needs to reverse-translate some bits of the interface back to English to actually understand what the original term stood for. P.S. Sure, if someone invents a way to make this stuff optional (say, fossil would try to look up translated resources in some "well-known place" at startup or such resources would have a possibility to be embedded into the binary with this feature turned off for default and official builds) then that would be OK, of course. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
