Le 22/12/2014 15:40, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit : > Le lundi 22 décembre 2014 à 15:36 +0100, Sophie a écrit : >> Hi, >> Le 22/12/2014 15:27, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :> Le lundi 22 décembre >> 2014 à 15:13 +0100, Sophie a écrit : >>>> Hi, >>>> Le 22/12/2014 15:08, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : >>>>> Hello Sophie, >>>>> >>>>> Le 22/12/2014 14:37, Sophie a écrit : >>>>>> Yes and if you read the announcement or the discussions on the lists, >>>>>> you have noticed that it's a contest for en_US templates only. >>>>> >>>>> The "risk" being that those templates come to non-en_US users. >>>> >>>> That would be their choice. >>> I don't understand what's so country-specific in a template. AFAIK MS >>> Office does not ship different templates in the US and in Europe. Cannot >>> templates be made mostly country-neutral if contributors are asked to >>> avoid adding too nationally-rooted details? >> >> It depends on the category of templates. For Writer for example, a >> simple letter presents a lot of differences depending on the country >> (it's even not language specific). The page format will be different, >> the date, margins, location of the addresses, ect... > Ah, OK. This may need some careful work by localization teams. > > But for more informal documents, offering a few good-looking templates > is not a problem.
yes, so don't hesitate to submit your template on the dedicated mailing list :) > >>> Of course text must be translated (if present), but this can be done >>> like GUI labels. >>> >>> If the contest is only for en_US, then most locales won't get any >>> templates at all, which is worse than getting an English template. So >>> better start with the idea that templates will have to be translated. >> >> Yes. The time frame for 4.4.0 is too short but we don't want to kill the >> enthusiasm of the Design team, so let's have the first contest for en_US >> and the localization team will then work on their internationalization. > Right. But to motivate people outside of the US, better say loudly that > templates will eventually be translated. I'm sure that will be said on the next iterations of the contest. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
