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

Martin Kolman mkolman at redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 17:35:08 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Lumens" <clumens at redhat.com>
> To: anaconda-patches at lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 7:18:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a help button to every Anaconda screen
> 
> > 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).
Thanks, I'll check it out.

> 
> > * 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?
I've just tried if yelp can handle compressed files transparently, but
it does not seem to be the case - it opens test.txt just fine but opens
the containing folder in Nautilus if you give it test.txt.gz. But that
was just a simple test - maybe DocBook or Mallard have something more
advanced that yelp supports ?

> Pulling from the network is kind of tough if you don't
> have network.
Well, yeah - best effort. ;-)

> 
> - Chris
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