This has irritated me for a while. The GDM login has some errors for South African languages:
We’ve created a patch which is attached to bug #363335 and addresses these issues. Should arrive for a GNOME sometime in the future.
[24 Oct 2006: Update: the patch was applied so will be in the next release of GNOME.]
We have begun building OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 on Linux, Windows will follow as soon as we have a stable build environment. Don’t be confused with our 2.0.3 test builds which are ironing out build issues on the last stable release. The 2.0.4 work is to get a version building cleanly, once we have done that we will test that all Translate.org.za related mods are included and onpy then will 2.0.4 replease our 2.0.3 versions.
We will publish builds when they are available for testing.
The lastest build of OpenOffice.org for Windows are available here:
http://www.translate.org.za/download/dev/windows/OpenOffice203-20061012.exe
Not this is a self-extracting .exe so download and run to begin the installation.
This build fixes our multilingual install problem:
Some minor issues remain:
The other issues with regards to spell checkers still remain, we will begin addressing those now. At the risk of repeating myself these are:
We’re still trying to iron out the issues with our Windows OpenOffice.org builds. The builds look good and are fully localised but it the installation that is presenting problems and we have some things missing post installation:
But please feel free to test - the more people who test, the more likely we are to find any lurking language related bugs.
To install do the following:
Please report errors to info@translate.org.za or the Afrikaans mailing list.
As promised TuxPaint now had Xhosa and Venda (and South African English of course) translations in RC2. This is not for the faint hearted as the only downloadable is a source tarball for your compiling pleasure. If you need help installing or compiling please ask your 3 year old. Don’t bother asking us, we haven’t tried.
CIA, the commit tracker as apposed to the US inteligence agency, is now tracking commits for South African translations. All seems to be working but I might need to adjust some things later.
Now that we have sorted out our migration to SVN we are beginning to migrate our translations to Firefox 2.0 (and also for Thudnerbird 2.0). We’re starting with Afrikaans and will see how that goes. The tools are picking up some problems which I hope will be sorted out soon.
After we migrate we will work at getting the translation up on Pootle.
download.translate.org.za is up!
Many thanks to Brad and Lorenzo from Rhodes University who have helped make this possible. This will take the download load off of translate.org.za which is kindely hosted by Obsidian Systems (those same people who give everyone free Jabber at jabber.obsidian.co.za).
We will begin the slow process of uploading our files to the new download site. I’m discovering how brain dead sftp really is :(. After that we will start rewriting links to point to the correct spot in the ether.
Oh by the way for those who are interested and this is by no means a quotable statistic. We are looking at about 100 downloads of OpenOffice.org a month. Similar numbers for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird together in Afrikaans. At least 75 downloads of the Afrikaans spell checkers. So now we actually have some idea that people are grabing this stuff.
A simple sum: 100 downloads * 12 months * R3 000 = R3,6 million that some savy South African computer users have saved by using OpenOffice.org.
We have upstreamed the Translate.org.za spell checkers to OpenOffice.org. This we hope will give them more exposure, it makes them available to the DictOOo install wizard and we hope will result in more Linux distributions including them in their packages.
Many of these spell checkers are experimental and development will continue at Translate.org.za and be published on the dictionary downloads pages or the actual download diretories.