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[Nicolas Delvaux <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kip,

You could indeed help translators to produce better translations 
faster.

First, let me give you a simple example:
The first untranslated string from VLR in French is currently "Studio 
Hardware".
A gettext context is also present but it is just "Studio hardware..." 
(I don't know if this was intended to be extracted as a gettext context, 
but you will agree this is not very helpful).

Personally, I can't translate this string because I don't know what it 
is referring to.
Is this a menu item? A window title? A button? (which does what?)
Is this a kind of editor for hardware? (which hardware?) or is this an 
hardware implementation of a kind of "studio"?

And, as I said, I just took the first untranslated string ;-)

As a volunteer who don't have much free time, I'm not motivated enough 
to ask you more details about each of these string.
And, as a user, I would rather see untranslated strings than poorly 
translated ones.

There are two ways for you to improve this situation.
First, you should improve existing gettext contexts and provide them 
for most (if not all) strings.
Secondly, you should document an easy way for translators to actually 
test the software with and without their translation (gettext context is 
not always enough, good translations are often tweaked so that the 
language style is consistent across the app and depending of the UI 
design where they are actually found).


I'm aware that this may require a lot of work but, well, this is the 
cost for ensuring a good translation quality when it has to be done by 
third parties who don't know much (yet?) about your project.


Cheers,
Nicolas




Le 2013-06-27 04:44, Kip Warner a écrit :
> Hey Nicolas. Thanks a lot for contributing to the French translation 
> of
> the Avaneya: Viking Lander Remastered. Since I am Canadian, albeit 
> only
> an English speaker, unfortunately, your translation is probably the 
> most
> important for the rest of non-English speaking Canada!
>
> Let me know if you have any questions. =)
>
> ~ Kip