[ANNOUNCE] Mobile Firefox (Fennec) String and Code Freeze

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hello to all the Fennec Localizers:

Here's the good news!

We are now string frozen in the final push to the RC for Fennec and then
the final release of our mobile browser. You can see the status of your
locale here:

http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fennec10x

Please note that the Fennce dev team made a sizable push and it appears
that all locales who were in fair shape just a few days ago now have
roughly 50 new strings to translate. (except for the eager few :) )

*Code Freeze is going to be December 1, 2009 11:59 PST*

*Testing*

If you are able to test, our Fennec testing leader, Aakash Desai,
completed the Fennec String Guide except for strings related to offline
caching.

1. Go to the Fennec 1.0 Localizer Test Run on Litmus:
https://litmus.mozilla.org/run_tests.cgi?test_run_id=48
2. Click on the "Fennec 1.0 l10n - String Guide" subgroup.

This will serve as a guide for you to interact with portions of the UI
and then map those portions to the strings within the .dtd and
.properties files within mobile-browser. As for the "Fennec 1.0 l10n -
Localizer Run", that should act as a smoke test for you to verify there
is nothing massively wrong with your builds.

Good luck working and please work to make this inaugural mobile release
for Mozilla a localized success! As always, we are here to help.

With warm regards,

sethb

[flod (Francesco Lodolo)]

From a quick look at the new files: I suppose that /installer/setup.ini
is used on Windows Mobile, and Firefox Mobile will still be distributed
as a beta on that platform. Anyway, is it ok to have an hard-coded
"Mozilla Fennec" in that file?

Francesco

[Fryske Firefox]

I like to start a small discussion on the choice of word "Desktop" as
used in latest browser.properties:
/bookmarkList.desktop=Desktop Bookmarks/
I think Desktop here means "the other device you use your Firefox on"
not being your mobile.
That device can be: PC, Mac, laptop, netbook, workstation, server (guess
not),
media box or maybe USB with Firefox Portable.
Although Desktop might be understandable for most English speaking people,
as soon as you start localizing you run into difficulties. And then
thinking back to the original English phrase:
Desktop is really the top of your desk where one of these devices can
reside.
In the internetpages I translated Desktop with PC, knowing that's a bit
shorthanded.

Since this all refers to synchronizing I'd rather choose in the above
phrase for something like:
/Serversaved Bookmarks/ or just /Saved Bookmarks/ or /Synchronized
Bookmarks/.
What do you all think?

Best regards,

Wim
fryske...@gmail.com
fjoerfoks.blogspot.com
www.mozilla-nl.org/
www.mozbrowser.nl
www.fryskesoftware.nl

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[Axel Hecht]

Commented in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502933.

Axel

[flod (Francesco Lodolo)]

Il 20/11/09 09:22, Fryske Firefox ha scritto:

> I like to start a small discussion on the choice of word "Desktop" as
> used in latest browser.properties:
> /bookmarkList.desktop=Desktop Bookmarks/
> I think Desktop here means "the other device you use your Firefox on"
> not being your mobile.

Same here, and already added a comment in the related bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515394

Francesco

[Axel Hecht]

You basic expectation is right, but I'm not sure about your conclusions.
flod asked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515394
already, posted a link to your post there, too.

Axel

[Brian King]

Pardon my dumb question (I know I asked Axel before but forget) but
where do we get the mobile strings for our locale and what is the best
way to get them into our 1.9.2 trees. Docs seems to be sparse on this.

- Brian

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hey Brian,

You can hg clone this:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/file/default/locales/en-US

When you are done translating those files, you can land the "sl" locale
files here:

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.2/sl/mobile

Best,

-Seth

[Axel Hecht]

cd into your mozilla-1.9.2 clone, and then

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/ mobile

Then you can use the top-level configure etc for the 'mobile'
application, and mozilla-1.9.2/mobile/locales/l10n.ini for compare-locales.

Axel

[Tim Babych]

Hello, Seth. I translated Fennec into Ukrainian (uk), and filed a bug on
it, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531367

XPI looks good, please add uk to builds so I can test them.

Thanks.
Tim.