Re: [poedit-users] Poedit usage mini-survey

Hi Vaclav,

It is an interesting and usefull survey, but I would like to give you a  
more private opinion on those before stating anything in the open...

Personally, I'm a bit against such databases if they are going to include  
free translations. Speaking from my experience with Croatian localization  
of Fedora and KDE (also main subject of my Poedit usage), many of those  
translations were never proofed, checked, and tested. Being done by  
volounteers with little or no experience in translating, their quality is  
very low. When I took over Fedora and KDE localization, 75 % of my work  
was correcting the mistakes in existing translations (lexic, grammar,  
typos, style, terminology, consistency, incorrect... you name it!).

Therefore, I feel such database would only serve as a source for more bad  
translations. And, if such database cannot provide quality translations,  
it is not worth money :S

Also, such database in a form of dictionary already exists and it covers  
Gnome and KDE localizations:
http://open-tran.eu/

For Croatian only I use EU dict page:
http://www.eudict.com/index.php

Both are free, and quite good.

The only way you could get an edge over these two is if in your own DB you  
could provide a detailed info about localized string, such as the name of  
the translator, date of translation, approval status, frequency of usage  
and such.

But, I would suggest you join up with Open-tran project. If yours and  
thiers effort and knowledge could be put together we could have quite a  
marvelous application and database! For isntance, if your Poedit could  
access Open-tran search engine?

I say this because I had a chance to work with few high-priced CAT tools  
that offer/need online DB and/or collaboration. They all suck. They either  
have far too many options (accompanies by retarded Teletubbies-like  
icons), are far to hard to set up, use far too many windows and panes, or  
are terribly slow.
One of those (cant remeber the name, but wife works with it, will ask her  
tomorrow) does not have an option of updating DB after you change existing  
100% match!

Best regards,
Renato Pavicic


Dana Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:24:16 +0100, Vaclav Slavik <[email protected]>  
napisali ste:

> Hi,
>
> I assume that people subscribed to this list are frequent users of
> Poedit and so your opinion on very few questions posted at this page
> would be enormously useful to me:
>
>     http://www.poedit.net/survey.php
>
> If you have time and are so inclined, please have a look at it -- it's
> just three questions, shouldn't take more than a few minutes at most
> to answer.
>
> As will be obvious from the text, I'm looking into the possibility of
> creating some optional services on top of Poedit that would allow me
> to spend more time developing it.
>
> Thanks!
> Vaclav
>



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Best regards,
Renato Pavicic

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Official Opera translator for Croatian language since April 2006

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