Introduction

Since Version 0.4, localization becomes one of our considerations. We are glad to announce that the localization framework has been set up. This page contains a Howto for making translations; and a summary of current available translations.

Howto: Make a new translation

Without SVN write access

• Checkout the pot file at http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/source/browse/trunk/po/gnome-globalmenu.pot
• Save it to you computer, rename to {your locale string}.po. E.g: en_GB.po
• Edit it, make sure
  • you should use utf8 for your translate file.
  • the first "" string's information is properly filled in, especially your name, and email address. (so that when we need to change strings you can be notified)
  • "translater_credit" shall be translated into your name, in your own language and you can optionally provide your email.
  • replace other localized strings with the strings in your languages.
• Save the modified file, email it to:

  gnome-globalmenu at googlegroups dot com

• If there isn't any troubles, within a few days or hours you'll find your .po file in the svn.

With SVN write access

• go to your working copy of trunk/po
• copy gnome-globalmenu.pot to {your language}.po
• you should use utf8 for your translate file.
• translate it according to the guidelines above.
• edit LINGUAS, add your language to the tail.
• svn commit

Translation Summary

|Language|Translator| |:-----------|:-------------| | zh_CN | rainwoodman | | fr_FR | pierre.slamich | | it_IT | lviggiani | | es_ES | acidrums4 |