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Gtranslator 1.9.5 debs

amrlima — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:41:24 +0000

Gtranslator 1.9.5 is the latest beta release of what soon will be gtranslator 2.0, the renewed and improved .po files editor for the GNOME desktop. I’ve been testing the development and also packaging it. This time it took me a while to update the packages, but the other day I finally packaged 1.9.5. It is available at mt ppa. This time the package is only for Jaunty (sorry!) because this version depends on GTK gtk >= 2.16 which is only available in Jaunty.

I did not build the subversion plugin for two reasons: it needed subversion (of course!) as a dependency, and subversion is no longer the VCS used in GNOME (hello git).

Gtranslator is looking good, so give it a try!

Ppa’s do launchpad com chaves públicas

amrlima — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:28:35 +0000

Finalmente os ppa’s (pelo menos todos os que tenho nos repositórios) têm chaves públicas. Adeus aos avisos que os pacotes não podem ser autenticados.

Gtranslator 2 on my launchpad ppa

amrlima — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:16:58 +0000

One of the things I do more to support free software are translations. Having a good application to translate .po files is a big help in doing so. Unfortunately GNOME doesn’t have a really good .po editor application. Gedit is nice but it’s like a pocket knife, does a bit of everything but for some tasks it’s limited. But that was until now! Gtranslator – a po editor for GNOME – was a project that was stalled for some time but a couple of GNOME devs (Pablo Sanxiao Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) resumed the project.

I’ve been reading a bit about some new exciting features of Gtranslator and har to try it out. So I got the code from subversion and compiled. In the way I made some debs to have around (learning a lot in the way) and I’ve built debian packages for Intrepid in my personal ppa for i386, amd64 and lpia architectures.

The open-tran and subversion plugins are really cool. Only one plugin wasn’t built (dictionary) since I still couldn’t figure out all the dependencies for it. If someone knows tell me! EDIT: The lib that the dictionary plugin depends is only available in jaunty so thats the reason I couldn’t find it.

The interface is (almost) all in English althought the .po files are there for other languages. It’s another “small” problem of my build or a bug – still trying to find wich one is true.

So if you want to try gtranslator and it’s great plugins just to to my ppa https://launchpad.net/~amrlima/+archive.

I must warn you that this is software under development and it may eat you cat and dog for lunch!