Finalizing Launchpad Translations keyboard shortcuts
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Since Launchpad is by now free software, I start working at improving the Launchpad Translations (Rosetta) main translations page by adding keyboard shortcuts for all common actions.
The following shortcuts were implemented and are in productions for more than one months but we need more feedback to finalize this feature:
First field is autofocused.
Shift+Alt+b - Focus first [...]
Asus WL 500 resurrection
Posted by Adi | Filed under English
In the last year I was using an Asus WL 500 wifi router and a couple of days ago it just stop working. The LAN and WAN leds were flashing and the power led and wifi were off. From time to time it started to work, but dying after a couple of hours.
I tried upgrading the [...]
GtkSourceView is a big boy now
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Vim is a nice text editor and I’m happy to use it for editing various source code and configuration files on remote servers, but on my desktop I prefer Gedit as I am more comfortable writing plugins in Python.
I have made some customization to QuickOpen and improvements to SessionSaver (waiting to be approved upstream) plugins [...]
Launchpad Translations Under the Hood
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Ubuntu Developers Week is here and I am happy to announce the Launchpad Under the Hood session that will take place in #ubuntu-classroom from irc.freenode.net on Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010, starting 17.OO UTC.
This is a session dedicated mainly to developers wanting to contribute to Launchpad Translations (codename Rosetta) but who are not yet familiar with [...]
We are doing fine… overall… I think
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
This is a short post about the status of Romanian free software translations.
According to Wikipedia, Romanian is ranked 40 by an estimation for number of speakers. To estimate the status of Romanian translations, I’m using the translations from Ubuntu 9.10 main repository and Gnome 2.28 .
In Ubuntu Romanian is 30, ranked by the number of [...]
Free software terminology translations
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Planet Ubuntu
I am pleased to announce a set of words/terms that could be used as a common terminology for translation teams.
It is based on the terminology files used by Romanian translations teams, which was started (around 2005) from the GNOME glossary file. In the last year the Romanian translations teams have successfully used a common terminology [...]
GTK stock icon names in translations
Posted by Adi | Filed under English
This is just an informative post in case someone is not aware of this issue.
Lucian Grijincu brings to our attention the issues of GTK stock icon names included in the translations.
In general the GTK stock icon strings should not be made available for translations.
They are strings like “gtk-ok”, “gtk-cancel” , “gtk-back” etc
If you are a [...]
