Re: Translate KDE

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Arbi'a 21 Sha`ban 1425 07:44 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> which I hope you read thoroughly and since unfortunately Isam never
> replied to your direct request (as he is the KDE maintainer), I'd
> suggest you start working on the translation of the following modules
> (in the order listed),
>
>   kdeartwork/desktop_kdeartwork
>   kdeartwork/klock
>   kdeartwork/kxsconfig

Surely the matter is not as easy as this if you care to do a useful 
translation that won't be thrown at the time it completes. You need the 
people here to tell you how to checkout the 'hidden' branch and do a sync 
before this. The files that you can see in Arabeyes.org status page and cvs 
web interface doesn't reflect the latest branch but an old one (3.2) that 
should be freezed by now. If you care to compare it with the original KDE 
repository, you will find even the number of the strings is now different.

Many files in arabeyes KDE cvs is not sync'ed yet 
(for some months now). Other files are .pot in KDE repository which we have 
translated 100% waiting for arabeyes gentle hands to upload it. If Isam is 
busy, arabeyes should do this until he comes back or why then we need 
arabeyes to take KDE translation responsibility?! To complicate things?!

I am not blaming any one here. Every one has his own 
priorities but to say that KDE translation is lacking behind while arabeyes 
hosting its translation exclusively and don't have time to do a sync is not 
fair at all. I only care about this project because I have done a serious 
effort before and was willing to do more but nothing is encouraging. BTW, I 
sent some messages regarding this topic before here and no one even cared to 
respond.

> Once you are done translating them, please upload them somewhere on
> the internet (ie. to a website somewhere) and let know us where
> to grab 'em from...

And pray you have a better luck than mine.

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