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Wow! 63 languages for KDE 3.5.1
by I'm a believer on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @15:42

The KDE Internationalization and Translator Team must be the biggest and most reliable one of any of the Free and Open Software Projects!

Man... 63 languages!! That is certainly more than Microsoft and Apple and Sun can muster (maybe not even if they pool together all their languages).

Congratulations to that gigantic achievement. At least on _that_ field, KDE and the Unix desktop is ahead of all proprietary competition on its long road to world domination.

The only thing I wonder: didn't the newly installed KDE marketing group members know that X.Y.1 releases traditionally do feature translations, translations, translations?? It is hard to believe that they do so much underestimate the efforts of the many, many industrious translators making KDE the success it is around the world.

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Re: Wow! 63 languages for KDE 3.5.1
by Sebastian Kügler on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @16:12

I agree, we should stress that much more. It's a great effort that is being made, and it cannot be underestimated.

Kudos to the translation teams making KDE happen in your language!

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Re: Wow! 63 languages for KDE 3.5.1
by Matej Cepl on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @20:01

> The KDE Internationalization and Translator Team must be the biggest and
> most reliable one of any of the Free and Open Software Projects!

OK, I am not sure whether Debian is not complete in this respect, but
$ aptitude search openoffice.org-l10n | wc -l

gives me here 53, whereas

$ aptitude search kde-i18n | wc -l

gives 66.

So, maybe you are actually right. :-)

Matej

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Re: Wow! 63 languages for KDE 3.5.1
by superstoned on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @01:35

what about gnome?

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Re: Wow! 63 languages for KDE 3.5.1
by Matej Cepl on Friday 03/Feb/2006, @17:44

I don't know what are the packages in Debian, but
http://www.gnome.org/i18n/ has also 52 supported and partially supported languages (supported is more than 80 % translated -- 39 languages, partially supported more than 50 % -- 13 languages). it seems that they are doing better than us.

I have downloaded whole similar data for KDE (of course, they are better presented :-); <http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable/index.php>) into OpenOffice (yeah, I know, but KSpread doesn't support this yet) and made a table <http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/tmp/kde-i18n.ods>. The table says that there are 25 languages supported above 80 %, and 12 languages above 50 %. It seems that in both aspects we are doing worse than Gnome.

Sorry,

Matej

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Re: Wow! 63 languages for KDE 3.5.1
by ac on Friday 03/Feb/2006, @18:02

GNOME is a lot smaller than KDE.

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