[Qgis-tr] Tool to help users find out what terms are translated to

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi James,

not 100% sure if I understand what you mean exactly, but want to let you
know that transifex already has some notion of 'glossary':

https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/qgis-documentation/glossary/l/no/

is that what you mean?

I have been thinking also about some lookup table for words/terms often
used in translation so a translations becomes more inconsistent.
But I hope that transifex could give us some of that functionality (note
that I'm not a vivid transifex user myself...).

IF you start implementing something yourself, plz keep it simple (maybe
just an online spreadsheet/table)? And if you want other community
members to host/develop/manage it, then stay close to the tools that we
already use in the project.

For all this kind of actions in FOSS, the answer often is: just try/do
it, and time will tell if it is successfull/helpfull :-)

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 06-07-14 11:26, Stott, James wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> A couple of weeks ago, I was asked which menus items someone needed to
> select to achieve a task in QGIS. I couldn't tell them instantly as I
> couldnt remember what exactly we had translated them to. The tutorial
> was in English, and they were trying to use our translated GUI. I was a
> little bit embarassed by this seeing as I am part of the team that
> translated the GUI.
> 
> 
> I had to revert QGIS back to English, find the menu options, and then
> tell them what they were in Norwegian.
> 
> 
> This got me thinking about whether it would be worthwhile to have a tool
> that can help people find what menu items are translated to in the
> different languages that QGIS is translated into. I have used a tool
> that Microsoft have for their products
> (http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx), and it was
> incredibly helpful when I first moved here. I also found this tool
> useful for Excel to find the names of the functions
> http://dolf.trieschnigg.nl/excel/index.php.
> 
> 
> Do we need something similar for QGIS? Is it helpful? What with most of
> the tutorials being written in English, our users of translated GUIs can
> struggle to find out what the menu items they need to use are
> (especially if the user manual has not been translated yet).
> 
> 
> I am happy to coordinate something like this if people think it is of
> use, but I may struggle with actually implementing it (happy to have a
> go though - just might not be very elegant). Ideally the data would come
> directly from transifex or something like that.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
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