Hi, I am working with Jmol project, a free molecule viewer.
We have decided to keep all translations, even if only a small percentage of the texts are translated. But we made a few modifications in the software itself : - Jmol is mainly used as a Java applet on websites, so the size of the applet must be kept as small as possible. We packaged each language in a separate .jar file so that a language file is only downloaded if the language is used. - The language menu only contains languages with a high percentage of translations. Other languages can still be used either by following user Locale settings, or by commands. We also don't advertise on languages that are partially translated I don't see the problem with translations that haven't changed in a long time : - if original texts haven't changed, the translation is still correct - if original texts have changed, you will see the percentage of completion go down Jmol translations : https://translations.launchpad.net/jmol Nico On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course expecting translations to always be at or near 100% is > unrealistic, but some translations are a year out of date (Swedish, > Portuguese, Hindi, etc), 10% complete (Lithuanian), 30% complete > (Serbian). Advertising support for these languages may be misleading, > and including them in the distribution adds size to the installation > package (that's why on Linux BleachBit cleans localizations). For a > few languages I've tried posting "help wanted" jobs at > SourceForge.net, but without success. > > Is a partial translation better than none? Any thoughts on dropping > languages that are older than X days or less than Y% complete? What > do other software packages do? > > BleachBit translation status: > https://translations.launchpad.net/bleachbit/trunk/+pots/bleachbit/ > > Best regards, > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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