Quickshot cannot be localized

Bug #582446 reported by David Planella
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Quickshot
Triaged
Low
Luke Jennings

Bug Description

Quickshot cannot be translated into other languages than the English default, since gettext is not being initialized.

The linked branch provides a fix for that and marks some additional strings for translation.

The next step is to allow translating Quickshot in Launchpad. In order to do this:

1. Enable translations: https://launchpad.net/quickshot/+configure-translations
2. Enable automatic imports: at https://translations.launchpad.net/quickshot/trunk/+translations-settings choose "Import template files"
3. Set translation permissions: at https://translations.launchpad.net/quickshot/+settings. I recommend using "Restricted"
4. Set translation group: I recommend using "Launchpad Translators", from the same URL as the above step
5. Enable automatic exports: at https://translations.launchpad.net/quickshot/trunk/+translations-settings choose the same branch as the imports or a separate one.

For more info: https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject

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Luke Jennings (ubuntujenkins) wrote :

Thank you for your contribution the merge is being made. However we will not be enabling translations until about half way though the ubuntu 10.10 cycle. This is so that we don't waste translators time translating strings we remove during the redesign. Also we need to work on a way to deal with how the translations are dealt with if a person wishes to take screenshots for documentation in a language that they do not speak.

Thanks again

Luke Jennings

Changed in quickshot:
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Luke Jennings (ubuntujenkins)
Changed in quickshot:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Neil Tallim (red-hamsterx) wrote :

Update: Translation support will be getting bushed back to the 11.04 release. A lot of stuff happened that caused our time to get decimated in this cycle, so while we'll have a completely new infrastructure, ready for overhauling with gettext, there's no way we'll be able to promise that by the start of next month.

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Neil Tallim (red-hamsterx) wrote :

To support this goal, all concatenation-driven strings will be rewritten during the documentation phase, which will start on September 10th. Prior to that point, any attempts at translation are strongly discouraged, since they will likely need to be redone.

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