[BlueOnyx:10042] Re: Conf files replaced by update

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Frank,

> OK. Just a last thing, with no relation to that, but I don't think that 
> it's maybe not necessary to begin a new post for that :
> do you know if someone works or has at least begun a french translation 
> of the interface ?

No, sorry.  I know there is demand for a French (and a Spanish) GUI 
translation, but so far nobody volunteered to do it. Nor is anyone on the team 
that could do it.

> And is this link : http://www.bluequartz.org/docs/translate/index.html 
> valid for BlueOnyx ?

Partially. I'd suggest a slightly different approach:

First of all, get the most up to date BlueOnyx sources out of SVN:

yum install sausalito-devel-tools

mkdir /home/devel
cd /home/devel
svn checkout https://devel.blueonyx.it/repos/trunk/ trunk

For read only access use the following login details:
Username: blueonyx
Password: blueonyx 

That will then download a copy of the BlueOnyx source code to /home/devel on 
your box.

Inside every module directory is a "locale" subdirectory that contains 
subdirectories for all the languages.

For a French translation you would copy en_US to a newly created fr_FR 
subdirectory there.

Then you would edit the *.po files to change the English text to French. And 
you'd need to do that for every module.

The *.po files are textfiles and can be edited with any text editor. On Linux 
"pico" or "vi" will do. Or "Kwrite" if you have KDE installed. To edit them on 
Windows I highly suggest "poedit", which is available free of charge.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber