QasTools

Translation

General

Applications in QasTools support localization/translation in most places. If you like to contribute or extend a translation feel free to proceed with the following steps which show a basic translation workflow.

For translation a few additional tools are required:

  • lupdate
  • linguist

These are from Qt and usually can be found in the Qt development tools package.

  • texteditor

Your favourite text editor. Gnome's geany or KDE's kate should work well.

Step 1: Preparation

Download the latest source tarballs from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qastools/files/ and unpack 

tar -xvjf qastools_X.Y.Z.tar.bz2
cd qastools_X.Y.Z

Step 2: Desktop file translation

The fields GenericName and Comment in .desktop files support translation. 

texteditor qasconfig/share/application.desktop
texteditor qashctl/share/application.desktop
texteditor qasmixer/share/application.desktop

Step 3: Localization database update

This reads all new strings from the source code and puts the into the localization database of your language.

  • Note: xy in app_xy.ts must be replaced with your language code.
    For example app_de.ts is the german localization file. 
lupdate i18n/app.pro -ts i18n/ts/app_xy.ts

Step 4: Application compilation

mkdir build install
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install
make -j8

Step 5: Application translation and test

linguist ../i18n/ts/app_xy.ts
make install
../install/bin/qasconfig
../install/bin/qashctl
../install/bin/qasmixer

Start over with linguist until you're happy with the translation.
When finished feel free to clean obsolete strings with 

lupdate ../i18n/app.pro -ts ../i18n/ts/app_xy.ts -no-obsolete

Step 6: Submitting the translation

When you're happy with the translation send these files 

qastools_X.Y.Z/qasconfig/share/application.desktop
qastools_X.Y.Z/qashctl/share/application.desktop
qastools_X.Y.Z/qasmixer/share/application.desktop
qastools_X.Y.Z/i18n/ts/app_xy.ts

to the development mailing list: qastools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Translators are welcome to subscribe to the list.
There isn't much traffic and translation requests for new version will be posted there.

The list subscription and login page is here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qastools-devel

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