Several of the app modules distributed by X.Org have support for displaying translated messages, either via gettext or per-locale app-defaults files. However, none of them have been translated to languages other than English. (As best I can tell, even the ones we added gettext() calls to at Sun never got translated by Sun's localization teams.)
Is there any interest in the community for actually having these localized, or are we happy with telling users of non-english locales to use the localized equivalents from GNOME/KDE/etc.? If there is interest, does anyone want to volunteer to figure out what we need to do to hook these up with the Translation Project ( http://translationproject.org/ )? That probably requires minor knowledge of Makefile.am editing, but not knowledge of the internals of any of the software packages in question. >From a quick grep, xfd, xload, & libXpm have gettext support already, and I also have patches in the OpenSolaris builds I need to upstream to add them to xfontsel, xhost & xman. I believe most of the Xaw-based apps should support app-defaults translations, but don't know if the translation project accepts those directly or wants .po files generated for translation. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
