More feedback from the field: On 17/06/2008, at 1:04 AM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
[Clytie] Pootle is widely used offline for translate-a-thons and other community translation tasks. It was initially designed for use by third-world communities. How do you think it needs to change to become more user-friendly?[Yama] The only way to bridge this, in my opinion, is toinvolve the community, and for that to develop a more user friendly UIfor localization than Pootle. I have no solution really.* context * find where you left off
Context: we do now have support for developer comments, but we need msgctxt support. How far off is that?
Find where you left off: I put in a feature request for this quite some time back (Last-Used link in Quick Links).
I know you have been working on base-level changes, but we really need to start responding to these user-level requests, to keep up with the real-life situations where Pootle can be of use.
I was really taken aback to hear Yama say Pootle wasn't appropriate for the OLPC community work. AFAIK, this is exactly the kind of job for which Pootle was first designed. Are we losing our disadvantaged- community roots?
We need to listen to our community users, and respond to their needs. Pootle does not have the world's most user-friendly interface: it needs updating. Is any of this likely to occur soon?
if so, I can reassure projects that their needs will be met. If not, I think we are going to lose the kind of users we really should be supporting.
The Pootle devs are keen to improve their interface, so I think there's no need to invent new tools, but rather to adapt the existing ones to suit the situation. Other offline programs like Kabel [1], Pootling [2] or LFE [3] are already pretty easy-to-use.Lots of this has been discussed on this list, and is right now being discussed in the Etoys list.
I'm on the OLPC list, as is Sayamindu. Is anyone here on eToys? from Clytie Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n
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