[Gimp-docs] GIMP manual writing in 2009

[Marco Ciampa]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:39:33PM +0200, julien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GIMP UI strings are in gnome: 66 different .po. Each of them is often
> updated.
> It would be a real pity for the GIMP spreading to do without these 66
> experimented translators.
> IMO, gimp-help must join the GNOME team. The gettext scenario is necessary.
> 
> The Wiki scenario will bring a lot of text editions. We can imagine that
> languages versions progressively will become independant from each
> others. Valuable things can be introduced in a language I can't
> understand. The unity of the gimp-help project will be broken.
> Is it easy to find what has changed in the Wiki?
> 
So, Joan, Julien and me are all convicted that a wikipedia
approach it not without (big) drawbacks.

The use of the gettext tool with all the .po/.pot file format conversion is
meant mainly to enable:

 - automatic revision control: easily find(!!) and update(!) updated strings
 - use of specialist translation editors
   (poedit/kbabel/gtranslator/emacs/etc.) 
 - even tools with web interface ready like rosetta 
   (wich enable group revision and commit supervision...)
   or pottle: see -> http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/

this is _much_ more than wiki!

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Marco Ciampa

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