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Re: Translations of metadata

 

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Michael Nelson
<michael.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So depending on which metadata you need translated, if it is only a few
> fields (name, description etc.) it could/should be straight-forward in
> myapps (if those fields are straight attributes of the Application model,
> not sure about 1-M fields). But the UI suggestion you've made above makes it
> sound like all metadata would be localizable - I've not thought about that
> case (and I'm not sure that the multiling helper would be the best option in
> that case - it'll create a record per-lang-per-appfield, as opposed to a
> record per-lang-per-app), but it sounds initially scary. I'd think it would
> be simpler to just have an extra tab/step during the app creation workflow
> where you can enter translations for a limited set of fields (ie. choose a
> language to add, enter the data and update, later you can always pull up
> that language and update etc.).


I have updated the wiki page adding a column of "translatable" to the
fields that I would expect would be translatable:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppStore/Interfaces/ClickPackageIndex

--
Martin


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