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LXDE translation status

During last year we had biweekly updates to the translation community and it was a great help but as our components got more and more completed in regards to translations and the supported languages we dropped those reports to do more targeted messages.
Last week we updated all files and repositories to make the source files [...]

Posted 31 May 2010 † brother § statistics ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Dropping support for unmaintained languages

This is a part of improving the quality of LXDE, we have alot of brilliant and dedicated translators working with keep the DE accessible in native tounge for alot of languages but some languages never took of or the translatro left or something and this renders more work for me.
We have infrastructure for 48 languages [...]

Posted 10 January 2010 † brother § lxdm ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Serbian and (soon) Catalan translations added!

LXDE пројекат је данас веома срећан да објави да је српски још један од подржаних језика у LXDE радном окружењу. Са српским преводом, број корисника које могу користити LXDE радно окружење на матерњем језику повећава за око 11 милиона!

Posted 08 September 2009 † brother § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

LXDE start pages in Portuguese

The LXDE.org start pages are now available in Portuguese thanks to Henrique P. Machado (zehrique) from Brazil who has translated the content. The set up of the language was done together with Mwei from Taiwan. We welcome contributors who are interested in having the LXDE start pages in their language. Please contact us through the [...]

Posted 09 June 2009 † Mario Behling § Community § Website ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

LXDE speaks 13 languages!

Three weeks have passed (was supposed to deliver some statistics last week but not that much had happened so I took the weekend to rest =)) since last report and we have had another huge progress in the code, most of it has happened the last week though.
As we approach the imminent release of GPicView [...]

Posted 24 May 2009 † brother § Community § Components § Development § GPicView § statistics ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Improving the translations workflow with Transifex

Roughly about a month ago Martin Bagge mentioned that we were researching the possibility of using Transifex as a translation platform for all of the LXDE components. That is not to say that our Pootle server won’t be around, but we felt that our translators could benefit from a few handy features that Transifex has [...]

Posted 21 May 2009 † Og Maciel § ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , ,

LXDE now accessible in local languages for 685 million people

As of yesterday the LXDE and PCManFM repositories are updated and all translations synchronized with there sources. It was a huge task to complete and lasted for almost 5 straight hours but here are the numbers!
LXDE is truly a international project with complete or started translations for most continents (Africa is laking but we are [...]

Posted 16 April 2009 † brother § Components § Development § PCManFM § statistics ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , , ,

Translation update!

New week and time for an update regarding the translations for LXDE. During the last week some more users have started the translations in Pootle and by all means have delivered. Significant changes are noted in Danish that are 100% complete by now, good work!
If you are new to Pootle and/or translation in general take [...]

Posted 16 March 2009 † brother § Components § Development § LXMusic § LXPanel § LXSession § LXTask § statistics ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , , ,

Translate *.po files with Poedit

Many of you wanted to help translating LXDE but only a few know how to do this, until now. Here is a description on how to help translating the components of LXDE. You can also view this article in the Wiki:
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_translate_LXDE_components (generally)
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Translate_*.po_files_with_Poedit (Poedit specific)

Posted 05 January 2009 † maces § Community § Development ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Two Three new languages of the wiki.

Just now, Mario said that we have more people joining our translation project and asked me to set up 2 more languages of our wiki: Indonesian and Lithuanian.
And currently, we have 17 languages of the wiki in total. But we have to work harder because Wikipedia has 265 different languages.
Update: Another request – wiki in [...]

Posted 05 January 2009 † medicalwei § Website ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: ,