How to ? Translate MODx Revolution

Just to bring this to an end: Shaun was so kind to send me a new password manually (thanks again!), but I still couldn’t log into the main site until I switched from Firefox 3.6 to Opera. I’ll investigate this further when I find some time for it.

Cheers,
Jan

Quote from: splittingred at Feb 17, 2010, 01:37 PM

As for the translation, we’ll probably be adding a new Tag or Repository for translations. I’d hold off on submitting your translation, as we’re not at RC1 yet and the lexicon entries will likely change (and more likely be trimmed a bit). We’ll have a stage after RC1 initial release where we’ll collect translations and we’ll provide clear direction on how to submit them.

Will this be announced in the "Internationalization" forum? Or should I "monitor" some other source?

Cheers,
Jan

We’ll get a doc up on translating Revo here very shortly. With the exception of modxpo, this is one of our highest priorities at the moment. Thanks!

Hi!
1)How will be distributed translation for the installation files?

Package can only be installed after the installation of the system and why do I need a translation of the installation files after installation?
I made a language pack with languagebuilder.
When I install the language pack it creates setup folder and because of this we get configuration warning: Installer still present.

2)Why сomponents do not switch to English if no translation for them in the current language. See attached screenshots.

Quote from: elastic at May 05, 2010, 12:23 PM

Hi!
1)How will be distributed translation for the installation files?

By submitting a translation transport package zip as an Extra via here:
http://modxcms.com/extras/submit-package.html?repository=13

Just add the name of the Component you’re translating as a tag.

Package can only be installed after the installation of the system and why do I need a translation of the installation files after installation?

Because your translation package will package in the translation. We’ll be ironing out this part post-modxpo.

2)Why сomponents do not switch to English if no translation for them in the current language. See attached screenshots.

Because of optimizations to only load necessary lexicons (rather than loading the entire English one as well), however, this would be better if it loaded the English one as a backup. Please file a bug in our bugtracker: http://bugs.modxcms.com/

Thanks!

Quote from: splittingred at May 05, 2010, 01:43 PM

2)Why сomponents do not switch to English if no translation for them in the current language. See attached screenshots.

Because of optimizations to only load necessary lexicons (rather than loading the entire English one as well), however, this would be better if it loaded the English one as a backup. Please file a bug in our bugtracker: http://bugs.modxcms.com/

Thanks!

http://svn.modxcms.com/jira/browse/MODX-1936

Yesterday I updated from rev6618 to rev6767, and now I have some difficulties with translating some strings.

1) The file /core/lexicon/en/permissions.inc.php is new, and several times the terms "basic permission" and "basic access" are used. Well, "basic" can mean "fundamental" ("universal"?), but also "standard minimum" (in this case "restricted"). How should this be translated?

2) In the same file:

In which case is a table truncated, what does this mean here?

3) In /core/lexicon/en/user.inc.php there are two new phrases:

What is meant here? I couldn’t find these phrases anywhere in the Manager.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Jan

Quote from: enigmatic_user at May 07, 2010, 08:48 AM

1) The file /core/lexicon/en/permissions.inc.php is new, and several times the terms "basic permission" and "basic access" are used. Well, "basic" can mean "fundamental" ("universal"?), but also "standard minimum" (in this case "restricted"). How should this be translated?

I would say "Standard".

2) In the same file:

$_lang['perm.database_truncate_desc'] = 'The ability to truncate a database table.';

In which case is a table truncated, what does this mean here?

A database is truncated when all of the database rows in a table are removed. So ’emptied’ maybe?

3) In /core/lexicon/en/user.inc.php there are two new phrases:

$_lang['remote_data'] = 'Remote Data';
$_lang['user_remote_data_msg'] = 'Edit remote user data here.';

What is meant here? I couldn’t find these phrases anywhere in the Manager.

Probably b/c they’re hidden if you aren’t using a remote user. A "remote user" is a user that is tied to an external service (such as LDAP, Crowd, OpenID, etc).

FYI, the MODx Core Team has made the decision that all translations for MODx Revolution will be committed directly to SVN and packaged into the main distribution; we will not go the transport package route.

More info on this to come post modxpo.

Quote from: splittingred at May 07, 2010, 08:58 AM

I would say "Standard".

Hm, so there are some restrictions? I try to understand these functions correctly...

Quote from: splittingred at May 07, 2010, 08:58 AM

A database is truncated when all of the database rows in a table are removed. So ’emptied’ maybe?

That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure.

Quote from: splittingred at May 07, 2010, 08:58 AM

Probably b/c they’re hidden if you aren’t using a remote user. A "remote user" is a user that is tied to an external service (such as LDAP, Crowd, OpenID, etc).

Ah, okay, thank you very much for your help!

Quote from: splittingred at May 07, 2010, 08:59 AM

FYI, the MODx Core Team has made the decision that all translations for MODx Revolution will be committed directly to SVN and packaged into the main distribution; we will not go the transport package route.

More info on this to come post modxpo.

Okay, thanks!