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French translation for Qtractor

Hi,

I havn't found any informations about a french translation for qtractor so far. I'm willing to help and translate into french. So what should I do ?

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rncbc's picture

You may contact linuxmao.org if they have an unofficial translation of their own. Translations are not officially on call, though.

Cheers

Well, I'm part of the admins of linuxmao.org, and there isn't anything that I know so far (I might have missed something though).
If I get you right, you prefer to wait for beta release before including translations in order to prevent extra work ?

rncbc's picture

Aha, yes, you're plain right: translations will be on call to be included way later, when it all gets a promotion to beta level ;) otherwise I and all translators will be playing catch up which is not my preferred game.

However, if you know how to, you can start doing your own (unofficial) translation right now: just add the following line to qtractor.pro file:

TRANSLATIONS += qtractor_fr.ts

build as usual and after that, run:

lupdate -verbose qtractor.pro

you should have a scratch qtractor_fr.ts under current directory. Now's time to start doing your real translation work, with the help of linguist.

When done or enough tired, you can generate the final binary translation file:

lrelease -verbose qtractor.pro

which should be called qtractor_fr.qm. This is the one file that you should move to under /prefix/share/locale to try it out from your environment (LANG=fr) when running /prefix/bin/qtractor of course.

Keep qtractor_fr.ts in a safe place, though. Besides you sure want to keep it handy while refining your translation job cycle (lupdate -> linguist -> lrelease -> test), you'll never know how soon or when I'll be asking for it to be included in an official release ;)

Cheers

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