Comments on: GNOME 2.30 Translations for the Faint of Heart http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807 The senseless thoughts of an open source advocate Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: OgMaciel http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807&cpage=1#comment-6047 OgMaciel Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:28:58 +0000 http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807#comment-6047 Hey Friedel! The first time you run the update command, conary, the package management system, has to introspect your entire system in order to grab only the changes needed to bring it up to date... that first time is a bit "expensive" but conary has improved a lot these last few iterations, so you may want to give it another chance. :) Now, do keep in mind that the GNOME Developer Kit, contrary to Foresight, gets new bits every time someone checks something into git.gnome.org... so you are definitely running bleeding edge and the chance that your system will suffer some set backs is very high. I guess it is the price you pay to have access to latest and greatest. ;) Hey Friedel! The first time you run the update command, conary, the package management system, has to introspect your entire system in order to grab only the changes needed to bring it up to date… that first time is a bit “expensive” but conary has improved a lot these last few iterations, so you may want to give it another chance. :) Now, do keep in mind that the GNOME Developer Kit, contrary to Foresight, gets new bits every time someone checks something into git.gnome.org… so you are definitely running bleeding edge and the chance that your system will suffer some set backs is very high. I guess it is the price you pay to have access to latest and greatest. ;)

]]> By: F Wolff http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807&cpage=1#comment-6046 F Wolff Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:18:30 +0000 http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807#comment-6046 Hi Og I tried it some months ago, and it very quickly had problems when updating. It also took very, very long to do updates on my slow ADSL connection, was very unreliable, and therefore had to repeat the very slow proses many times to complete one update. Have things improved in terms of updating speed and reliability of updates? At the time the foresight guys couldn't help me to get back to a working system, and I can't really download these things afresh all the time. At the moment I'm using a VM with the development version of some distro. They update things fairly regularly as well - more frequently than I will be updating translations anyway, and we are currently in string freeze, so things are quite stable. Hi Og

I tried it some months ago, and it very quickly had problems when updating. It also took very, very long to do updates on my slow ADSL connection, was very unreliable, and therefore had to repeat the very slow proses many times to complete one update.

Have things improved in terms of updating speed and reliability of updates? At the time the foresight guys couldn’t help me to get back to a working system, and I can’t really download these things afresh all the time.

At the moment I’m using a VM with the development version of some distro. They update things fairly regularly as well – more frequently than I will be updating translations anyway, and we are currently in string freeze, so things are quite stable.

]]> By: OgMaciel http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807&cpage=1#comment-6044 OgMaciel Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:31:52 +0000 http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807#comment-6044 Yeah Jonh! Nothing like the rush of waiting for GNOME to build under jhbuild! :) Yeah Jonh! Nothing like the rush of waiting for GNOME to build under jhbuild! :)

]]> By: OgMaciel http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807&cpage=1#comment-6043 OgMaciel Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:30:26 +0000 http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807#comment-6043 Hey David, Yup. This version actually seems to have all the available languages from GNOME in the language selector. You have to select "Other" and then wait for the popup dialog to select your language. This developer kit is refreshed on a daily basis so things could break after an update... but if you find yourself staring at a blank screen after an update, switch to level 3, turn on your internet device, and run <strong>sudo conary rollback</strong> 1 to revert all changes and go back to normal. :) Hey David,

Yup. This version actually seems to have all the available languages from GNOME in the language selector. You have to select “Other” and then wait for the popup dialog to select your language.

This developer kit is refreshed on a daily basis so things could break after an update… but if you find yourself staring at a blank screen after an update, switch to level 3, turn on your internet device, and run sudo conary rollback 1 to revert all changes and go back to normal. :)

]]> By: Jonh Wendell http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807&cpage=1#comment-6042 Jonh Wendell Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:34:43 +0000 http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807#comment-6042 Another option: turn on the adrenaline and just build everything from git - jhbuild :) hahaha Another option: turn on the adrenaline and just build everything from git – jhbuild :) hahaha

]]> By: David http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807&cpage=1#comment-6041 David Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:58:45 +0000 http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=807#comment-6041 Hi Og, This is really useful for translators, thanks for the post! The last times I tried the GDK to test translations, though, only a few languages could be selected on GDM, and there was no language selector within the session. So as it was not included, I had to give up testing Catalan, but I'd very much like to give it another go this time. Does the current GDK allow selecting all GNOME languages? Hi Og,

This is really useful for translators, thanks for the post!

The last times I tried the GDK to test translations, though, only a few languages could be selected on GDM, and there was no language selector within the session. So as it was not included, I had to give up testing Catalan, but I’d very much like to give it another go this time.

Does the current GDK allow selecting all GNOME languages?

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