On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:57 +0100, David Planella wrote: > Hi Dylan, > > While I think you don't have to file a bug about it right now, it would > > be very helpful if you could tell us some more about the changes, so we > > can decide whether they are worth breaking translations at this point. > > For example, I'd be interested to know: > > > > * Which packages would be affected (the Ubuntu Slideshow, the > > Kubuntu Slideshow, the Xubuntu Slideshow, the Upgrade Slideshow, > > all)? > > > > * Which exact strings would be affected and how? > > > > Have you had the chance to look at this? > > Thanks! > > Regards, > David.
Hi David! Sorry about the delay; I should have responded to this earlier, especially since I actually do have a list :o So, I have this going on in a bzr branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/ubuntu-newstrings And I have a snapshot of that on the web: http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/ubuntu/slides/index.html#?controls And there is a discussion about this in the Ubuntu forum and the project's mailing list. I'm hoping to catch errors nice and quickly. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1436709 This is ONLY the Ubuntu slideshow that I'm playing with, though there are some recent string changes for the Xubuntu and Kubuntu ones as well, which should probably be discussed separately. Of the 52 strings total, this is changing 21 right now with another 4 changes possibly coming. Here are the current changes, ordered by their importance: welcome.html - 2 changes Rewrite last two lines. Remove copied / pasted Ubuntu Promise stuff. Say something interesting. installing-software.html - 4 changes Full rewrite to fit new features and to not encourage installing third party software ubuntuone.html - 4 changes Will be changing, though I don't have the strings yet; they're coming from someone else. I am assuming that it'll be 4 brand new strings replacing the 5 current. empathy.html - 4 changes Title changed to “Social from the start.” Could use a better name... media.html - 3 changes Well, really, 1 string removed and merged into the others, so 2 changed strings are left ;) Mentions music store. “MP3 player” changed to “portable media player” along with a possibly dubious claim (should it be removed?) that it works with most iPods. openoffice.html - 3 changes Learn › Understand. “It can create”, not “use it to.” “Letters” › “Documents”. A little bit of swing for the last line. fspot.html - 1 change New, shorter, less insane title firefox.html - 1 change In last bullet point: “Add your own personal note with addons” changed to “Give Firefox your own personal touch with addons.” Still not great, but I hopefully makes more sense. evolution.html - 3 changes Includes a change to title and two other strings. Removed an occurrence of the sales voice that was in the middle line and simplified the over-complicated email setup stuff. People shouldn't need to worry about what kind of email account they have here. Ideally I would have liked to rewrite accessibility.html and tinker with the last slide, but the changes are already pretty heavy-handed and those two don't seem to be in any urgent need. Thanks, Dylan PS: Even though all the titles are shorter now, I also made this support multi-line titles. That fix isn't applied in that preview, but basically you don't need to worry as much now about squeezing titles into my character limit. The text will just span two lines where the second line has smaller print and the edges remain nice and sharp. I hope it makes things easier :) -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
