KDE

The KDE Linux desktop is easily localisable and has a very mature localisation project.

Suggested Priorities

These are the priorities as suggested by the SkuleLinux project.

There is no priority within each of these groups

FIXME this is probably out of date since the move to SVN version control

First Second Third Fourth
kdebase kdeaccessibility kdeaddons kdeextragear
kdelibs kdeadmin kdeartwork kdeextragear-1
kdepim kdeedu kdegames kdeextragear-2
koffice kdegraphics kdekiosk kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdesdk kdeutils kdetoys docs kdenonbeta others

Of course you will probably want to move some applications found in the kdeextragear modules up. Or translate them when requested. Suggested candidates for bumping up include: amaroK, kbabel, superkaramba, Scribus, Kopete, Quanta+, Kaffeine, Juk, KDevelop, digiKam, kdebluetooth, kontact and kimdaba

Compiling your language

FIXME update for SVN

If you have made changes or wish to install the latest translations for your language from CVS do the following after checking out the kde-i18n module from CVS.

$ cd kde-i18n
$ echo XX > inst-apps # Where XX is your language's ISO code
$ make -f Makefile.cvs
$ ./configure # or ./configure --prefix=/usr if you do not want files installed is /usr/local
$ make
$ su -c "make install"

Updating all translations manually

You can update all translations manually instead of waiting for KDE’s automatic update bot called scripty.

$ cd kde-i18n
$ cvs up templates
$ VERBOSE=yes make -f Makefile.am.in merge

If you specify your language in a file called “inst-apps” then it will probably only update your language, which is a good thing. Have not checked this though.

Committing to CVS

FIXME fix for SVN

Always check the PO files by running:

$ cd kde-i18n
$ check_po_files xx

Where xx is your language code. Also running msgfmt in check mode

$ msgfmt --check -o /dev/null some-file.po

Checking accelerators

You now need to add the following to your kdeglobals in order to use the F12 accelerator check feature:

[Development]
CheckAccelerators=F12