[PATCH 1/3] Add a help button to every Anaconda screen

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 17:18:03 UTC 2014


> Thats a good point - do we already handle something similar 
> (out of source-code files that contain translatable strings)
> somewhere else ?

The best example I can think of is the ransom notes.

> The technical details of showing the translations in Anaconda still
> need to be decided though:
> * how to package the translations
> - one big vs multiple packages ?

I would assume each translation would end up as its own package, given
how we deal with other things like KDE language packages.

> * how to switch the translations 
> - subfolders per language ?
> - file prefixes/suffixes ?
> - or is there some internal DocBook thing for this ?

I'd probably do it the same way we do ransom notes now (search for
_get_rnotes).

> * how big will the translated help content be
> - influences the installation image size
> - some images having the full translated help set/some just english/some no help at all ?
> - pulling the translated help package from the network after language selection ?

Yeah, this is the biggest problem.  I bet the translations will be
pretty large, though perhaps we could get around some of this by storing
them compressed?  Pulling from the network is kind of tough if you don't
have network.

- Chris


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