[kln2-devel] volunteers hunting

[Marek W. <Mar...@fu...>]

Hi,

On Saturday 13 March 2004 22:10, javier wrote:
> Here is a program that we can use to implement the
> voice/microphone input:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/harpin_floh/kguitune_page.html

? It looks quite complicated (because of oscilloscope-like
rather than note's name output).

I extracted a part of gtune
http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~wiecko/gtune-extractedConsoleTuner.tgz
that works fine for me. All it would require is wrapping this
into a Q_OBJECT class which would emit a signal rather than
write output to stdout (and in future fine-tune it).

The main problem here is that gtune is not GPL. :((( Someone who
would deal with this subject would have to write to gtune people
and ask them to GPL at least this part of the code [they made up
some strange license themselves].

Could someone, please, volunteer to do this?
* write a letter to the gtune men (Michael Celli and Harold C.L.
  Baur) and ask them to GPL this part of code
* if they agree - implement this into kln2 (we can talk about
  details)
* if they don't - find some other GPLed, very simple tuner,
  extract the tune recognition part (so that it worked as the
  above extraction from gtune) and put it into kln2.

> And for the fretboard here is other program that have
> multiple strings:
> http://www.geocities.com/harpin_floh/kguitune_page.html

Javier, I'm sorry, but this is exactly the same link as the one
above. :/ Shouldn't it be something else? Considering your
previous e-mail, maybe http://xstick.sourceforge.net/ ?

> I contacted the kde spanish translation team and they
> are asking for a PO file to finish the translation.

So far I used Qt .ts / .qm files for translations. I'm not sure
if it was reasonable (I guess the .po system is native for glibc
and used more frequently). KDE translators are big and well
organized group. It would be great if we could use their help.

I had quite a bad experience with KDE files placement, though.
For example. it is virtually impossible to make the helpfiles be
found by KDE help viewer on every system :(. I contacted guys
from other older projects and they have the same problem.
Basically, if you make things within KDE package (I mean, make
it really part of KDE distribution) it works. If you make an
external package it should work for most people (if you do it
right) but there is no way things like the helpfiles worked for
everybody.

So before switching to .po we have to check if this would not
lead to similar problems.

Could someone, please, volunteer to look at the subject? How
should the .po translations be prepared and loaded? Is it
KDE-independent? Where should be the files placed? Is it
possible to automatically convert .po to .ts and vice versa?
If yes, we could use KDE translators team help without changing
a thing in kln2! :) Yes, this looks as the simplest solution:
how to convert .ts to .po and vice versa?

~Marek

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