[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Working on the Chinese version of tuxtype

[Frederic Muller]

Dear Everyone,

Thanks a lot for the prompt responses, I have started to follow up on 
the indications you gave me and I already have questions:
I found the theming documentation, the lang.po and the po/tuxtype.pot 
(we started from an existing po file) but they both are located in the 
following directory which seems strange to me:
tux4kids/branches/commonification/tuxtype/branches/gsoc-sarah/

When looking at tux4kids/trunk/ I don't find any of those files. Is it 
normal or is gsoc-sarah the active branch?

I have also failed to actually see my translation at all. I assumed that 
just adding the tuxtype.mo in local-langpack/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ should 
work (on debian/Ubuntu platform) but it's not doing anything (started 
the application with LANG=zh_CN).

Next I'll discuss about Chinese typing specificities but we're actually 
fine teaching QWERTY since it is the keyboards in use.

Thanks again.

Fred

David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Frederic,
>
>   
>>> We've been searching on how to solve this issues for a while. Found 2
>>> thread on the forum and very little information on the theming. We already
>>> have translated the po files for Chinese (latest version) but not all the
>>> texts/menus are inside.
>>>       
>
> Translations of the text in the menus are handled by GNU gettext using
> the po file for your language.  All of the strings to be translated
> should be in the template file, which is po/tuxtype.pot in the source
> tree.  AFAIK, they are all in there in our current release, but please
> let me know if something is missing.
>
>   
>>> We're now looking at the scripts and words folders
>>> but again can't find all the menus.
>>>       
>
> The scripts and words (that is, the theme-specific "content") are not
> translated by gettext, so they don't have any corresponding entries in
> the po files.  For the word lists, you simply create text files with
> all the desired words, one per line, with the first line being the
> title to be displayed in the menu.  For the xml scripts, the best
> advice is to copy one of the existing ones and edit the content as
> needed.
>
> Also, you need to make a keyboard.lst file, which is our inelegant way
> of specifying what characters are "typable" with the keyboard layout
> for that language.
>
> The best advice would be to study some of the existing themes and see
> how they work.  Go to tuxtype's theme data directory (e.g.
> /usr/local/share/tuxtype/themes with a default "./configure; make;
> sudo make install"), create a "chinese" directory, and add your
> keyboard.lst and word lists below that.
>
>   
>>> Where is the best place to start and can we post the po file for tuxtype
>>> on this list?
>>>       
>
> Yes, this list is fine - just put everything into a *.tar.gz and attach it.
>
> Also (*important*) - I'm not sure the recent builds of tuxtype handle
> non-Western keyboard input correctly.  I do know that it will display
> the text properly, but it is possible we have some bugs that will
> interfere with the actual game.  If so, it is something critical to
> get fixed.  I would really like any feedback you have on that.
>
> Also - just to be sure, our most recent release is 1.8.0
>
> Best,
> David Bruce
>
>