Hi Kari! You are more than welcome to help correct "not understandable" english "original" .. Sometimes fixing a bug or getting a function to work ist just more interesting than thinking about the correct term to use in a button. If you find such things .. just post it on the translators mailing list and I am more than happy to try to fix it in the original version.. That would be really great ..
kind regards Werner On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Kari Salovaara <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/16/2014 01:49 PM, Alexander Bruy wrote: >> >> 2014-02-16 13:22 GMT+02:00 Kari Salovaara <[email protected]>: >>> >>> String cannot be too long; if You cannot translate the string correctly >>> it's >>> developers duty to modify/update the dialog structure to make all >>> translations possible (that's called democracy). ;) >> >> I can translate string correctly. But you miss some points: >> - in some languages average word length is bigger that in others, as >> result >> translated string can be much longer than original >> - sometimes original string should be translated in a flexible way, >> using >> synonyms or even totally rephrased. >> >> There are some other reasons why translated string has bigger length >> that original >> one. And this is not developers duty, this is translator duty to make >> UI consistent >> and easy to read. >> > > I've almost single handed translated from so called English language the > whole QGIS application (and some other applications too), so I think I've > some experience. The language structure is very different in various > languages (I've also some knowledge of other languages than Finnish ;) ). If > You cannot fit translation in too small area then translator cannot obey > Your order and duties You mentioned. QGIS is meant to be a quality software > and that means those texts which developer has originally written should be > used (mostly) but at least they should be understandable. To change dialog > e.g. using the tools Qt provides, it'll take max 3 mins. and I consider that > a very limited cost compared that if user cannot understand and you have to > help him/her each time 15 mins. or that we get bad reputation and QGIS will > not get new users. > > I'm not looking any fight here, I'm only looking quality result. These > issues have been somewhat a problem since gui came into use, for me late > 70's. > > Cheers, > Kari > > -- > Kari Salovaara > Hanko, Finland > > "Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart." > ~Elizabeth Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-community-team mailing list for organizing community resources such as > documentation, translation etc.. > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
