[QGIS-Developer] Translation state of master

[Alexandre Neto]

I miss good old Qt Linguist. Well, maybe I don't. I miss the context that
it provided to translate string, but not how lonely it was because no one
was translating anything.

While I was reading this thread, I was wondering... For Docs and website we
have a very nice link at the bottom of the page that points us to the
translation strings of a current page (Thank Richard!) It would be great if
we could do the same for QGIS GUI (using a plugin for example). This would
help a lot to fix strange strings, and to review translated strings.

Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> escreveu no dia segunda, 15/01/2018
às 20:48:

> Werner, Harrissou,
>
> Thanks a lot for the clarification. Werner, I was bothering you about it so
> many times - why didn't you ever tell me how it works? :D Another funny
> thing
> is I never realized the nightly builds are translated - it seems I was so
> sure
> they aren't...
>
> Just tested with nightly and weekly - it really works! Sorry for the buzz.
>
> > hmm,
> > maybe we should clean out the i18n subtree on github so that it is more
> > obvious that you have to pull the translations..
>
> It would cut the confusion and it would also supress git-status notifying
> about a modified file (either the .ts or .gitignore). As I understand,
> when a
> new release branch is created (2.16, 3.0, 3.2...; the 2.18 was
> exceptional),
> translations are pulled from Transifex anyway, so removing them from master
> will only simplify the situation, and won't cause any side effects.
>
> > Personally, I'm not sure I'd have come to QGIS contributions if it was
> > still using Linguist or any developer oriented tool. I joined QGIS
> > contributor as a translator because Transifex looked easy and
> user-friendly
> > and didn't need a particular client installation. I'm not sure GitHub is
> > easier despite recent discussion (and anyway it's not possible to
> translate
> > in its web interface) nor Qt Linguist attracts more people.
>
> Well, my personal feelings are completely opposite... I find Linguist a
> nice
> wysiwyg tool (with its GUI previews), while Transifex requires so much
> effort
> and skills to fix any single typo. First, its GUI is so unfriendly and slow
> that I'm forced to manually type URLs whenever possible, e.g. for
> searching.
> Second, if I want to translate anything, I have to copy the string origin
> to
> clipboard, open a file manager, find the source file, the line and finally
> guess its context. Of course most people don't do it, but it just moves the
> labour to a person who will fix their mistake.
>
> It's just my 2 cents to express the Transifex superiority isn't unanimous
> - of
> course I've reconciled with the fact we need to live with it :)
>
> Borys
>
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