[tex-live] Translation of tlmgr gui (was Re: Russian translation of new tlmgr GUI)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Vladimir, 

I chime in now ...

On Mo, 11 Jan 2010, Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard wrote:
>> I also make translation for TeXworks but this program uses Qt so I
>> update translation file (ts) using Qt Linguit (I just run lupdate -pro
>> TeXworks.pro -ts trans/TeXworks_ru.ts and ts file is updated
>> accordingly so new strings are added).
>>
>> Is there similar way to update po files? (I made translation several
>> days ago but today I have to begin with ru.po file in TL ROOT).

That is done in the background already every night. That is the
reason you always ...

> See tlpkg/doc/howto-translations.txt (or similar name). Previously, I was 

should read that. THere it is written to please get the latest
NN.po from the svn/websvn as we are merging changed strings on a daily
basis automatically.

> editing the .po file with vim, but now I'm using gtranslator, which is 
> more convenient for updates (ctrl-maj-pgdown is your friend).

And as Manuel said, for actually editing the .po file there are 
many editors, gtranslator, poedit, ksomething, ...

>> - 'File' is not meaningful name for this menu entry. More closely would be
>>   'Repository'.
>
> Yep, there was some discussion on this point. We thought people usually  
> expect the first menu entry to be "file", so it would be good to fulfill  
> this expectation. But you're right, the price is a not-so-meaningful 
> name.

Agreed with Manuel, there was actually several discussions on that
and we settled for the "what people expect more" than "what is the
most suitable name".

>> - I don't understand the idea of 'Backup' button. If I could
>>   make backup of some packages then how can I restore these packages
>>   from backup? (another words: is there button to restore packages?).
>>
> I think you have to use the command-line interface to restore backups.

Yeah for now the restore is only possible via command line, but
I want to add it to the GUI at some point.

Best wishes

Norbert
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