How to force KTurtle in a language besides English?

[HansF]

Hello all,

For a workshop I'm trying to make some live CDs with KTurtle
installed. I remastered the Kubuntu 8.04 CD and it boots in Dutch,
displays all of KDE, including KTurtle in Dutch, but in KTurtle you
can't select Dutch as input language, only English (I've used UCK to
remaster the Kubuntu CD).

I'm at my wits end, because I've checked all of the language settings,
reinstalled and remasterd at least 6 times, installed to a HD, but to
no avail. Right now I'm considering rolling my own deb with Dutch
forced as only language. But before I do this I'd like to ask your
advice. Maybe the solution to my problem is easy, or you might have
some tips on how to force KTurtle in another language besides English.

I need to get this done by this weekend, so help please!!!!

A desperate Hans from Wageningen, The Netherlands

[Mauricio Piacentini]

HansF wrote:
> I'm at my wits end, because I've checked all of the language settings,
> reinstalled and remasterd at least 6 times, installed to a HD, but to
> no avail. Right now I'm considering rolling my own deb with Dutch
> forced as only language. But before I do this I'd like to ask your
> advice. Maybe the solution to my problem is easy, or you might have
> some tips on how to force KTurtle in another language besides English.
>
> I need to get this done by this weekend, so help please!!!!

That is indeed strange. What do you get when you launch KTurtle from the
command line, using:

KDE_LANG=xx kturtle

where xx is the language code for dutch? Portuguese for example would be

KDE_LANG=pt kturtle

and Brazilian Portuguese:

KDE_LANG=pt_BR kturtle

It might be a problem with Kubuntu not setting this variable correctly,
or a bug in the application. Let us know.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini

[cies]

what version (the kde3 of kde4 version of kturtle) are you trying to use?

are the necesary internationalization packages installed?
kturtle should default to the language of the desktop, you said the
desktop is fully in dutch right?
can you run kturtle from the commandline and post the commandline
messages it produces here. thanks!

ciao,
_cies.

[HansF]

Sorry, I'm still using KDE3. For some reason when installing a Dutch
desktop the kde-i18n-nl package doesn't get installed, because that
was the culprit. Works fine now, so tonight I'll try to compile a new
live-CD again. You would expect that when installing (kde)language
packs the kde-i18n-nl package would also be installed, though, right?

Glad this got solved and thank you guys. The project starts next week
Monday, so I'm quite on time.

Hans

On 21 mei, 03:06, cies <cies.bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> what version (the kde3 of kde4 version of kturtle) are you trying to use?
>
> are the necesary internationalization packages installed?
> kturtle should default to the language of the desktop, you said the
> desktop is fully in dutch right?
> can you run kturtle from the commandline and post the commandline
> messages it produces here. thanks!
>
> ciao,
> _cies.
>

[cies]

i'm interested in the project ;-) yr running..

user feedback is very valuable. please post stuff here it you learn
things that might help us.

niels and i are aswell dutch -- i'm not 'in' at the moment though.. let us know!

ciao,
_c.

[Hans Fong]

For the moment it's a two part workshop where the kids (aged 9-12) get introduced to KTurtle. Next year I'll keep on teaching the 9 year olds and I'd like to expand the project with a designing. For me this is new as well, but I'm hopeful as some of the kids have been exposed to Linux/KDE, so the hurdle isn't as high as you would expect. The KTurtle handbook is a good start, so that's what I am using right now. I've been involved in the Linux community for 8 years, so I will post material when I make some original stuff.

Hans

[cies]

yea sure.. we're interested also in nice turtle-programs.
we're also interested in what are the main stumbling block for kids to
pick up the programming. we'd like to make programming as easy as
possible...

thanks!
_c.

[Daniel Ajoy]

On Wed, 21 May 2008 09:56:47 -0500, cies <cies....@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> yea sure.. we're interested also in nice turtle-programs.

I'm not sure if these count:

http://neoparaiso.com/logo/ejercicios-de-geometria.html

Daniel

[cies]

daniel: thanks ;-) nice collection!