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Help translating Stuffkeeper

Who can help?

You have no clue about programming? Words like source code, compiling or Makefile make you shiver? Well good News, you are not useless! Help spreading this little gem, by translating it into your very own language - and we believe you know your language, dont you?

Good.

How can you help?

It is really easy... just get this file: [1]

Open the .pot file in Poedit (http://www.poedit.net/), which will most likely ship with your distribution. From there on its pretty straight forward, just translate the msgid fields, that you know from the program into your language and save the file under YOUR_LANGUAGE.po.

Send the file to qball@qballcow.nl. Most likely the next release will include your translation.

Thats it, you have helped and reserved yourself an entry in Stuffkeepers About Dialog. Neat, huh?

Trying an translation

If you translated the pot file and you want to try it you have to take the following steps:

• Get a copy from git. see here
• Copy the translated pot file to po/<lang>.po f.e. for german po/de.po.
• Edit configure.ac and add your country code to the ALL_LINGUAS list.
• return ./autogen.sh (and continue compiling using the normal steps.).

To run stuffkeeper with the the new translation start it like:

LANGUAGE=de stuffkeeper

(you might need to install some language-packs in your distribution).

updating translation

If you want to update the translation to contain the latest string, or want to see how much is translated do the following: inside po/

intltool-update de

This will update the de.po file and show a quick summary, like this:

................ done.
83 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 69 untranslated messages.