How to test your translation (obsolete)

[clem]

Edit: Translations have moved to Launchpad. The content below is now obsolete.

There's nothing better than testing your own translation, i.e. running the software you just translated with your own brand new translation. And that's actually very easy to do.

Let's say we're translating mintDesktop in Spanish..

Create the folder:

The first step is to create a new folder for Spanish translations in mintDesktop (if it doesn't exist already).

- Open a terminal and type:

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sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintDesktop/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES

Note: "es" stands for "Spanish", so replace this appropriately ("it" for Italian.. etc etc..).

Create the PO file:

The second step is to create the translation file in the right place:

- In the terminal type:

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gksu gedit /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintDesktop/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

- Then paste the content of your translation:

msgid "Desktop Items"
msgstr "Icônes sur le bureau"

msgid "Computer"
msgstr "Poste de travail"

msgid "Home"
msgstr "Dossier personnel"

msgid "Network"
msgstr "Serveurs réseaux"

msgid "Trash"
msgstr "Corbeille"

msgid "Mounted Volumes"
msgstr "Volumes de stockage"

Note: That's supposed to be Spanish.. but I'm not that good at Spanish so the example above is actually French.. just don't mind that too much

Compile the translation:

- In a terminal, type:

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apt install gettext

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cd /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintDesktop/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES

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sudo msgfmt messages.po

Test your application:

- In a terminal, type:

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LANGUAGE=es mintdesktop

- Check that everything is in Spanish.

- Eventually reopen Gedit the same way as before, make extra modifications, recompile the file with msgfmt and rerun the application until you're fully happy with everything.

This example above was for mintDesktop and "es" (Spanish), it works in the exact same way for other languages and other mint tools.

Questions are welcome, don't hesitate to ask by replying to this thread.

Clem.

[kvaju]

locale es stands for spanish, what shortcut is for Croatian? cr? hr? or there is some rule?

thanks

[emorrp1]

I found the following list of acronyms: http://www.zenphoto.org/svn/trunk/zp-co ... s-i18n.php
Croatian is hr.

[clem]

Another way to know that is to look in Synaptic for "Croatian" and you'll see packages like language-pack-hr

Clem

[abhilashkumar]

I am trying to test my hindi translations for mintUpload, mintNanny. but i keep getting the message command not found. mintBackup ran properly but the rest havent run at all. any suggestions.

[emorrp1]

abhilashkumar: try the command in all lowercase as in the mintDesktop example clem gives above. mintBackup is strange in that it provides both a lowercase version and a camelCase version. To be sure, you can see a list of all the mint commands by typing "mint" and hitting tab twice in the terminal.

[abhilashkumar]

This is the output of my mint tab tab

abhilash@abhilash-mintbox ~ $ mint
mintAssistant mint-compress mintInstall mint-md5sum
mintBackup mint-decompress mint-make mintWifi
mint-batch-make mint-fortune mint-make-cmd

The commands dont seem to be there, but I can run the programs from gnome do and also from the menu.

[emorrp1]

Are you by any chance running mint 6 felicia? You can only really test the Gloria translations with the Gloria versions of the mintTools, which you get by installing Gloria. Nevertheless, you can still test the translations to a certain extent e.g. spanish mintUpload (and it should be similar for some other mintTools too:

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LANGUAGE=es /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpload/mintUpload.py

[abhilashkumar]

yeah i am on felicia... sorry about that...