Re: [doc] Unity/Ubuntu translation

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org>]

Salam,

Last time I checked Unity had poor/non existent RTL UI support making a
horrible experience for translated UI, so I'd make sure this is fixed
before putting much effort in translating it.

As for new terms, the wiki's techdict has always been meant for this,
though I see people are resorting more and more to pre-techdict mess
recently for reasons far beyond me.

Regards,
 Khaled

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:31:18PM +0100, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> Salam,
> 
> Ibrahim Saed is currently translating Unity, and I'm reviewing his
> translations but I have some questions:
> 
> * How to translate Unity terms: Launcher, Dash, Top bar, and Lens?
> * What's the best way to translate command descriptions? 
> http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll251/ibraheem_alex/Super.png
> The original English text is already inconsistent, and a bug should be
> probably filed, but what to do for the Arabic translation? (use the
> present or imperative form? or maybe the noun?)
> 
> One more thing: how to handle translations of non-Ubuntu-specific
> applications? They are usually already translated so this isn't a
> problem, but sometimes it is. For example, Shotwell is currently the app
> with most suggestions (around 200), while its translation is managed on
> transifex: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/shotwell/
> 
> Regards,
> Abderrahim
> 
> 
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