localizing commands for Ubiquity 0.5

[mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)]

I apologize for resending this, but I realized too late that my subject wasn't quite representative of what I wrote.

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Hi all,

As many of you know, earlier this week we released a preview of version 0.5 (0.5pre). We're going to stress test and refine this release through the weekend and push the official 0.5 out next Tuesday. This release will have fully localized commands for Danish and Japanese, as well as parser settings for a number of other languages. Read more about the 0.5 release and how to test it here:

https://labs.mozilla.com/2009/06/ubiquity-0-5-preview-release/

It's not too late to add localizations for other languages to 0.5, though. Localizations help make Ubiquity more "natural" for more users, offering a new level of ease and familiarity to the already powerful Ubiquity. There's a new tutorial explaining the command localization process:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.5_Command_Localization_Tutorial

To help encourage command localization, we now have po template files for all the bundled command feeds in the hg repository. You can find these files in the ubiquity/localization/templates directory of the repository, or online here:

http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/hg/ubiquity-firefox/file/tip/ubiquity/localization/templates

If you complete some localizations (even incomplete) for your language and would like to submit them into the repository, for the time being, you can post them here:

http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/712

I'll be looking forward to seeing your localizations! If you have any questions, feel free to ask here in ubiquity-i18n or on #ubiquity. :)

mitcho

ps: In other news, today we added a Spanish parser thanks to kelopez! Muchos gracias!

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mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
mit...@mitcho.com
Linguist, coder, and teacher

[Rui Araújo]

If you complete some localizations (even incomplete) for your language and would like to submit them into the repository, for the time being, you can post them here:

http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/712

I'll be looking forward to seeing your localizations! If you have any questions, feel free to ask here in ubiquity-i18n or on #ubiquity. :)

mitcho

ps: In other news, today we added a Spanish parser thanks to kelopez! Muchos gracias!

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mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
mit...@mitcho.com
Linguist, coder, and teacher

Hi there,

 Is there any guide on how to test our translations before commiting them.

And by the way, isn't the ubiquity trac a bit slow today or is it just me?

Cheers,

Rui Araújo

[Blair McBride]

Yes, its slow. It's not just you :)

- Blair

[mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)]

 Is there any guide on how to test our translations before commiting them.

Rui, thanks for asking. I just added more detailed explanation of how to test those templates in the command authoring tutorial.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.5_Command_Localization_Tutorial

mitcho