[Lmuse-user] we need translators ;)

[Florian J. <flo...@we...>]

Hi

as muse has undergone some massive internal changes (moved arranger into 
an own window, namespace changes etc.), most of the translations don't 
work any more.

the reason is that with the namespaces, the contexts have changes 
(PianoRoll became MusEGui::PianoRoll and so on), so linguist is confused 
now.

it does however give us mostly correct suggestions (as it still knows 
about the old translations)

what we need now are people who speak other languages than english and 
german, who can help us get the translations working again. for 
languages which already existed before, we don't even need native 
speakers, as all you have to do is (mostly) verify the suggestions and 
press "enter".

i hope as many of you as possible will help us with that. it's really 
not much work (given that the locale already existed ;) ).


a quick tutorial:

    * check out the branches/release_2_0 branch
    * install qt-linguist, qt4-linguist or linguist (you might have to
      search for the proper package name)
    * cd where/you/put/release_2_0/share/locale
    * linguist muse_es.ts (for spanish)
    * if linguist asks you about the languages, set up the upper
      combobox as "POSIX", and the lower for example as "Spanish / Spain".
    * then start with the first context and the first phrase
    * usually, the translation-field is already filled. verify, maybe
      change, then press CTRL+RETURN
    * there is some "hints" box, which tells you stuff like "english
      phrase ends with a :, but translation doesn't". then a red
      exclamation mark appears in front of the entry. fix that.

i just noticed that even i (who speaks german and english, but not at 
all spanish) can verify some (though not all) translation in spanish, 
given that there are suggestions.

so this should be really not hard or much work for you. we all would 
greatly appreciate any help (and not only in translating ;) )


when done, send us a patch for your .ts file (or directly commit it to 
the release_2_0 branch, if you can commit)

you might want to publically announce when you start working on a 
translation, to avoid two people doing duplicate work ;)


greetings
flo