Dne 15.7.2015 v 13:11 Martin Kolman napsal(a):
On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 12:53 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 15.7.2015 v 12:21 Mathieu Bridon napsal(a):
>> On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 10:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> On 07/15/2015 10:20 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Description and Summary can be localized in .spec file [1],
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> supposedly "names" in comps terminology refers to
"summary"
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> .spec
>>>>>> terminology. Including translations is encouraged in
>>>>>> guidelines as
>>>>>> well
>>>>>> [2, 3], unfortunately without any further details :/
>>>> I don't think localized summaries and descriptions are
>>>> applicable in
>>>> distributions like Fedora, where packages are maintained by
>>>> individuals.
>>>>
>>>> IMO, making localized summaries/descrs. helpful would require a
>>>>
>>>> multilingal team of translators/packagers, whose sole task it
>>>> would
>>>> have
>>>> to be to add translations for a predefined set of languages to
>>>> maintain
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> That said, I don't consider random packagers adding random
>>>> translations
>>>> to packages to be useful and to cause more problems than they
>>>> solve.
>> One problem with localized summaries/descriptions in packages, is
>> that
>> you need a new build (and a new update in Bodhi, unless you wait 6
>> months for the next release) for it to reach users.
>>
>> That's a lot of churn, and it's a terrible UX for users to keep
>> receiving "updates" that only add a translation of the
>> summary/description of the package (not the app itself!) in a
>> language
>> they might not even care of.
>>
>> Comps is much better on this point: we edit comps, and at the next
>> compose the change is taken into account.
>>
>> Much less churn, especially for the users.
>>
> But how is better to have translated just comps, when nothing else is
> translated? And speaking of UI, comps translation are visible just in
> Anaconda.
Not only in Anaconda - you can for example use the translated group
names to install groups with dnf group install.
Do you think this is the way how regular users install software? May be
I should say next time GUI to be precise ...
Vít