Gnome
Arabic Gnome
Gnome is a Graphical Environment for GNU/Linux operating system (and other *nix systems). It is one of the two most widely used and probably the most installed on default on Linux distributions, so getting it translated to Arabic is extremely important. Arabic is one of the most widely used languages, but, unfortunately, we often lag behind other Gnome Translation Teams, mainly because of lack of contributors. Many language teams, like French, Spanish and Portuguese are super fast at completing their translations, surely a beautiful language like Arabic deserves the best team :)
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محتويات
Status
Status: We have completed translating gnome 2.16 finally, and 2.18 is already well translatied (95%). In this round, we will place more emphasis on quality, grammar, consistency and correctness. Some more ideas are in the other subprojects section.
Please consider joining the Arabic translation team, it is a wonderful self-fulfilling experience. Djihed Afifi is currently the maintainer, please contact him at djihed@gmail.com or post a message to the doc mailing list (doc@arabeyes.org), we'll take you from there :)
Gnome applications that are not in the official gnome release are also to be translated. Click here for a short listing.
Try it
For now, you can get a gzipped tar ball of compiled translations from here (This is less than 1MB). Extract it and copy the contents of the resulted folder to "/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES" (or the appropriate path according to your system), don't forget to backup old files first.
Screenshots
The Team
- Djihed Afifi: Maintainer, he has the power of persuasion; don't come near him unless you can afford to work for him!!... though he is a very busy student; Djihed took the burden of maintaining the translation of the huge Gnome environment; he currently lives in London, studying computer science, without his enthusiasm Gnome's translation wouldn't have been completed.
- Khaled Hosny: Quality Assurance Khabir, quick and passionate, this is the fast and furious of the translation world, beware! He manages Arabic QA efforts.
- Ahmad Farghal: Evolution Faresse(knight), In no time this dedicated translator charged at evolution, the beast of the software world. Grab your popcorn for this fight, we already know the winner ;)
- Youcef Raffah: a fast reliable translator who is not afraid of tackling big empty files.
- Youssef Chahibi: a young student from Morocco with a sharp mind. He initiated many of the translation reforms at Arabeyes.
- Mohamed Magdy: this guy takes a few files, works in silence and surprises us back with them done. The team is proud to have him :)
- Walid Bakkar: His articulation is promising, so expect only good things from him :)
- Ziad Badawi: Our new addition to the team, now working on Gparted, the cool graphical partition editor.
Statistics
Gnome 2.18
Last updated: 29 December 2006
* 33646 96.03% translated. * 1068 3.05% fuzzy. * 322 0.92% untranslated.
* Total 35036 * To be done 1390
Gnome 2.16
MISSION COMPLETE!
Last updated: 27 December 2006
* 33901 100% translated. * 0 0% fuzzy. * 0 0% untranslated.
* Total 33901 * To be done 0
Other GTK projects
The Gnome Project also includes many other applications which should to be translated. These include some of the best OSS applications out there. Feel free to Grab any of these :), some examples:
- The GIMP: the image editor.
- Dia: Diagram editor.
- GParted: Graphical Partition Editor.
- Gnumeric: spreadsheet application.
- Hardware Monitor.
- Planner: for planning projects.
- Anjuta: Integrated Development Environment.
- Beagle: fast search for your files.
- f-spot: Image viewer.
- gftp: ftp client.
- ghex: Hexadecimal editor.
- gnome-torret: torret client.
- straw: rss client.
And much more.
How can I contribute to Gnome Translation?
Currently, 2.18 sits with about 35036 total messages, 1390 of them not translated; i.e. nearly 4% .Typically, a moderate translator can translate about 100 strings in 1 hour, so we need about 14 translation hours. It's not a far target given enough people.
If you decide to contribute, you may start translating right away, have a quick look at the translation_help page, introduce yourself to the maintainer or the mailing list, you will be assigned a file. Translating a few files will slowly give you an idea of how we do our work, and hopefully will let you know the areas where we need improvement. If you have the necessary skills, you can start thinking of these subprojects and ideas. If you decide to embark on some task, please let the maintainer know to avoid redundancies.
Also, Gnome has a Localising GNOME Applications guide that is worth reading.
At any time, you will find helpful responses by asking at the doc mailing list, or ask the maintainer directly, so please don't despair if things seem confusing. It is also a very good idea to subscribe the doc mailing list.
Gnome Translation todos/ideas/subprojects
This is not meant to be exhaustive, if you have an idea or would like to work on one of these you are more than welcome, please contact the maintainer.
- Official Gnome arabic page.
- Collect a list of application names and standardise their translation.
- Unified shortcuts.
- Update the plural form in all files and correct them.
- Arabic Gnome LiveCD: an Arabic LiveCD with Arabic gnome to demonstrate our work.
- Fix Bugs related to Arabic and Right-To-Left.
- Build debs and rpms for the various distributions.
- Quality Assurance
- Step 1 quality assurance (Khaled Hosny), underway.
- Step 2 quality assurance.
Gnome Status Messages
