Tracker for Haiku internationalization progress

[pulkomandy]

This is a general ticket to track progress on internationalization. It only track the sourcecode and jamfiles part, not the availability of languages (this probably belongs outside of tracker)

Done

• Appearance preflet
• Background preflet
• Bluetooth preflet
• CPU Frequency preflet
• Fonts preflet
• Keymap preflet
• Locale preflet
• Media preflet
• Network preflet
• OpenGL preflet
• Touchpad preflet

• Tracker addon ZipOMatic

• ActivityMonitor
• CDPlayer
• CharacterMap
• DeskCalc
• Devices
• Mail

Not done

Application folder:

• DiskUsage
• Icon-O-Matic
• Magnify
• MediaConverter
• MediaPlayer
• Pe
• People
• PoorMan
• Vision

Prelet:

• DataTranslations
• E-mail
• Notifications
• Screen
• ScreenSaver
• Time

Desktop Applets:

• LaunchBox
• PowerStatus
• ProcessController

[jonas.kirilla]

Wouldn't it be better to use this ticket in combination with a wiki page? And maybe just post a comment here once in a while.

(The ticket change emails for that header-rewrite ticket made my head hurt.)

[pulkomandy]

Yes, may work better. We will also need a platform to keep track of the translations, but trac seems inappropriate for that (too much apps X languages combos).

[jonas.kirilla]

I'm working on new layout for the Backgrounds preflet.

[pulkomandy]

Background preflet was layouted and translated by Kirilla.

[humdinger]

I had a quick look at some of the "done" apps. Since it came up in #5555, the AboutRequested() isn't ready yet because the bolded app name is still fixed size. Would this be an adequate solution (plus the translation TR macros of course):

void
QuickLaunch::AboutRequested()
{
	char *appname = "QuickLaunch";
	int namelength = strlen(appname);
	char text[512];
	sprintf(text, "%s  v0.9.4\n"
		"\twritten by Humdinger\n"
		"\tCopyright 2010\n\n"
		"QuickLaunch quickly starts any installed application. "
		"Just start to enter an app's name and choose "
		"from a list of all matching programs.\n", appname);

	BAlert *alert = new BAlert("about", text, "Thank you");
	BTextView *view = alert->TextView();
	BFont font;

	view->SetStylable(true);
	view->GetFont(&font);
	font.SetSize(font.Size()+4);
	font.SetFace(B_BOLD_FACE);
	view->SetFontAndColor(0, namelength, &font);
	alert->Go();
}

[pulkomandy]

Yes, it could work this way. I saw some apps using a standard about dialog as a function that accepts appname, author list and copyright years as parameters. This one works fine but always assigns copyright to Haiku, Inc. which is not right for mail.

[humdinger]

You're right! There's a private header AboutWindow.h that does what you list above and also does variable bolding. For flexible copyrighting it should be extended with a const char *copyHolder (maybe defaulting to "Haiku, Inc."). It's used in LaunchBox, BTW. It's still private, however.

[diver]

FileTypes preflet is mostly done.

[mmadia]

Setting this as a blocker for entering R1/Beta's.

[pulkomandy]

Updated the ticket description with a list done by Diego Luca Candido as part of GCI. Thanks !

[diver]

"(uses BColorControl which features untranslated "Red:", "Green:" and "Blue:")" could also be deleted.

[pulkomandy]

Sure.

[phoudoin]

ActivityMonitor done in hrev39769.

[Karvjorm]

A patch for localization of Notifications preflet is now here: #7005

[Karvjorm]

BTW, Devices are done and it is also translated into Finnish in HTA, but it is not implemented in the Haiku source code. Is it only with Finnish texts so or also with all other translations? As src/tools/translations/Inspector as well.

[pulkomandy]

Ok, this ticket doesn't have an useful purpose anymore. Please open individual tickets if you come accross i18n problems.