There's no ability to translate the app
Bug #1077102 reported by
Bence Lukács
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Format Junkie |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Alex Solanos | ||
Bug Description
There is no translatable strings under the Translations menu, however the app is not localized.
Please provide ability to translate the app.
| Changed in format-junkie: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| assignee: | nobody → alexsol (hakermania) |
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| Alex Solanos (hakermania) wrote | #1 |
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Thanks for reporting this bug, but of course we already know it.
One thing that keeps us away from making the application translatable is that we cannot really check one by one the strings on every (of the probably more than 10) languages in which FJ will be translated into. Also, there is the problem where some strings shouldn't be above e.g. 30 characters long, but that is impossible to achieve while translating. So, even though the translators have been advised their strings to be about the size of the initial untranslated string, it isn't always so easy.
There also is quite a big risk of having spelling errors or even bad language (of which we are unaware).
Translations require a lot of effort from our side. We have to check every language if there is a string that doesn't fit well (cropped or such), and then re-send it back to the translator and wait for another answer of him/her, so you then depend on them on how long it will take for them to answer.
I will not hesitate to say that all this procedure is dull ( :D ) and may take several weeks (I know it from my experience from Wallch).
Any advice is more than welcome... If there is no solution found to the above problems then I guess we will have to cope with all this problems because there isn't any other option...