Hi Caolan, Caolán McNamara píše v St 31. 05. 2017 v 15:23 +0100:
> I've been experimenting with replacing the resource src/res system with > a more standard gettext style solution. Sounds great to me! > 17. size concerns ? > > We always bundle en-US resources in our install, these go away and the > binaries increase by a somewhat smaller amount than the size of the > removed en-US res file. > > Translations which, either by design (en-GB, en-ZA) or because of > limited translations (brx), share a lot of strings with en-US shrink a > lot. > > Translations which are basically full, e.g. de, appear to be around the > same size for a sample large translated module, e.g. cui where the > gettext prototype (uncompressed .mo) and 5-3 .res + .ui translation > zip-compressed file despite the .mo containing the full en-US keys vs > the .res using numerical keys and the .ui using widget_id keys > > This is a bit surprising, maybe its because (even zipped) in general > the simple en-US key strings are shorter than the .ui zip widget id key > strings currently used or perhaps the .res format has more overhead > than I thought. I was concerned about this, so really glad it's not an issue at all :-) > 18. Trashing existing translations ? > > This is my unknown, if we make a change like this, which is reasonably > small from the coding perspective, do we have a means to mass convert > everything in pootle to make it a trivial change for translators too ? > > It's reasonable easy to script changing the .po files in translations > to match the proposed layout, and my prototype does this in order to > reuse the old translation for my experimental builds, but do we have > the means to e.g. reimport those modified translations into pootle ? > > Or do we have other means to manipulate the pootle translations to > avoid ~all translations becoming invalid/fuzzy and avoid forcing manual > inspection of practically every string. Ideally I'd like everything > translated to remain translated so there's no angry translator > pitchfork-wielding mob. Cloph can do miracles with the Pootle migrations from what I've seen in helpcontent - Cloph, is this possible? All the best, Kendy _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
