Tasmotizer translations #78
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Hello, thanks for asking. |
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Even if Tasmotizer (and Tasmota) were to have a translation to my language, I'd still stick to the English-language version. |
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I totally agree. I personally don't need it. May could be helpful for other non english speakers. If any help is needed I can make the spanish translation. |
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Personally I think that have an Italian translation for Italian is a godo plus. @Sformis Please don't think if you like or don't like to have tasmotizer in local language. tasmotizer is powerful application that require a good knowledge of the GUI action. I believw that if the GUI is localized most of not English user could be more confident with it. |
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What I mentioned is that Tasmota does not have a translation to my language (Danish), and I see no benefit from having Tasmota (or other tools like Tasmotizer) localized to this audience, as I'd see it as unlikely for people tinkering with IoT stuff not to have a decent grasp of English (while they may or may not find it a bit difficult having to express themselves). Of course, I'm aware that the degree of widespread English proficiency can vary greatly in different countries and mother tongues. The downside of having a translation is "wasting" time and development/maintenance resources on doing it, and how my experience with translations is that they too often makes things harder to understand by using "weird" words, which technically are translations, but way outside of what words people use in the real world outside of language-extremists. Or simply that that the translator did not carefully review all the contexts phrases are used in, now or in the future. I'd not spend any time on doing translations to Danish. |
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I am not against localization per se. At the moment the build and release process is manually. |
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The tasmotizer compilation process is currently manual for all steps (compialtion Windows/Linux application). |
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Yes, I know :) having i18n working any other way would be dumb. |
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@sformis If tasmota didn't have a Danish translation why don't cooperate with your knowledge to translate tasmota in Danish? In the same way why don't cooperate to have a Danish translation for tasmotizer? What's the neegative point, not only for you but for all Danish users, to have tasmotizer GUI in native Danish language then English? I beleive that if a translation is not done is a good point to start a translation. |
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I've already explained the negative points of doing the translation work, and also why I do not consider it good use of time to do a Danish translation. And doing a good translation is a lot more work than just going through a list of strings. Context of string usage matters a lot, and also avoiding translating too many words in an effort to make it "maximally" Danish. Many concepts just do not have common usage outside of using the English words, even though a few people do insist on artificial usage of words made up by some language-nerd, making a translation less understandable. With the situation in Denmark, I see no positive value in doing a forced translation. |
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I'm so sorry but I'm not absolute agree with you. |
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no, you're not right. You can't take a sentence from a discussion related to a small, easy tool (tasmotizer) and apply it in general to every "technical software" in Danish language. |
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For me is not related to small or big sofwtare. |
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Yet the idea of tasmotizer is to hide as much details as needed so the user can use it even with very little understanding of english. Adding localization to application limits my flexibility of changing current widget texts and messages. It requires of me to maintain a base template of these descriptions. Then it requires other to ensure that translations are up to date for every string. That, in turn, will require of me to release only to update strings in some language. All that makes sense in projects that are released often (see tasmota). But after tasmotizer has ESP32 included, it won't see another release pretty much for like half a year, because what else could be added to it. Either way, my current priorities are to add ESP32 to tasmotizer. After that's done maybe I'll have time to do other stuff. Meanwhile, if you'd like to, you can always fork and distribute tasmotizer-IT to your heart's content. |
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If it simplify the developing use of QTranslator .TS/.QM file it's a good option. |
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We'll see. Not going to lie, I would need more users to be interested in translations to justify the added work. |
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So far we have just 5 votes. Obviously is not representative for the huge amount of users that love Tasmotizer |
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I believe that 5 requests are not a few. How can make a better propaganda about feedback for this impovement request? |
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Hello, a question.
Do you see the need to translate Tasmotizer to your local language?
If you vote yes, are you willing to put in the work to provide (and ideally maintain) the localization file for your language?
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