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- This file contains some important hints for translators.
- The current status of the GIMP translation can be checked at
- http://l10n.gnome.org/module/gimp
- Translation of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is handled by the
- GNOME Translation Project (see http://l10n.gnome.org/). If you want to
- help, we suggest that you get in touch with the translation team of
- your language (see http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/).
- GIMP is different
- GIMP is a complex application which has a bunch of scripts and
- plug-ins that all want to be internationalized. Therefore there is
- not one catalog but many. For a full translation of GIMP's UI, you
- will have to add translations for the following catalogs:
- po/gimp20.po -- the core
- po-libgimp/gimp20-libgimp.pot -- the libgimp library
- po-plugins/gimp20-std-plugins.pot -- the C plug-ins
- po-python/gimp20-python.pot -- the pygimp plug-ins
- po-script-fu/gimp20-script-fu.pot -- the script-fu scripts
- po-tips/gimp20-tips.pot -- the startup tips
- If you are looking for the translations of gimp-perl, please note that
- gimp-perl has been moved into it's own git module called
- gimp-perl.
- GIMP Tips dialog
- In addition to message catalogs GIMP provides a file with tips that
- are displayed in the Tips dialog. This file is in XML format and can
- be found in the tips directory. The english tips messages are
- extracted from gimp-tips.xml.in so translators can use the usual
- tools to create a <lang>.po file that holds the translations. All
- translations are then merged into gimp-tips.xml with language
- identifiers taken from the po filename.
- GIMP needs to know what language it should select from gimp-tips.xml.
- Therefore, there's the special message "tips-locale:C" in the main
- message catalog that needs to be translated correctly. For a german
- translation of the tips this would look like this:
- #: ../app/dialogs/tips-parser.c:188
- msgid "tips-locale:C"
- msgstr "tips-locale:de"
- Localization of third-party plug-ins
- Third-party plug-ins (plug-ins that are not distributed with GIMP)
- can't have their messages in the gimp-std-plugins textdomain. We
- have therefore provided a mechanism that allows plug-ins to install
- their own message catalogs and tell GIMP to bind to that
- textdomain. This is necessary so that GIMP can correctly translate
- the menu paths the plug-in registers. Basically the plug-in has to
- call gimp_plugin_domain_add() or gimp_domain_plugin_add_with_path()
- before it registers any functions. Have a look at the script-fu
- plug-in to see how this is done in detail.
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