[qmc2-devel] Italian translation

[R. R. <ren...@ba...>]

Hi Stefano!

Your sf.net account should now be allowed to do commits in the SVN repository. 
Please do all updates against the "trunk".

A general "rule": when using an editor for any manual editing, please choose 
one that produces POSIX-like line endings (and not WinDOS-like "^M"'s). I 
prefer 'vi', but that's a matter of taste, of course :)!

Not counting the documentation, the steps to translate QMC2 basically consist 
of 2 things: translation of the application with Qt Linguist (> 3220 
meanhwile, I'm sorry!) and the translation of the external "emulator 
configuration templates" (XML files) with either Marcelo Bossoni's Java 
translation tool or manually (I'd prefer Marcelo's tool, if I were you...). 
Anyway, I would suggest to start with the application translation via Qt 
Linguist...

You'll find the Italian (completely unfinished) translation source in 
'data/lng/qmc2_it.ts'. All you have to do is open this file in Qt Linguist and 
start translating :)... 'lrelease' will be called whenever necessary through 
make (there's also a "make lang", BTW). You should produce the compiled 
translation (data/lng/qmc2_it.qm) before you "svn commit" your changes, but if 
you miss that, it'll be updated by me on the next commit :).

The required minimum Qt version is 4.7, BTW, but I'd recommend to use 4.8, if 
possible. 

As the Italian translation will surely take a bit of time to complete, we 
should do the following in order to avoid SVN merge-conflicts during this 
period:

- I will refrain from running 'lupdate' as long as possible.

- When I *must* run it, I will post a message here asking you to "commit
  your changes" so I can run 'lupdate' safely afterwards.

Regarding template translation... well, let's talk about it in detail when 
you're ready to go :)!

You'll find the XML files in 'data/opt/<emulator>/template.xml'. Basic idea is 
that every <section> and every <option> can have a translation of its 
<description>:

Example:

<section name="search_paths">
  <description lang="us" text="Search paths"/>
  <description lang="de" text="Suchpfade"/>
  ...
  <option name="crosshairpath" type="directory" default="crosshair">
    <description lang="us" text="Path to crosshair files"/>
    <description lang="de" text="Suchpfad für Fadenkreuz-Dateien"/>
    ...
  </option>
</section>



Have fun, René