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Creating a translation

If you would like to have Flowblade translated into your language you can help by contributing a translation of Flowblade in your language.

Flowblade uses the standard GNU "gettext" utilities to translate the application. GNU "gettext" is a relatively complex tool, but Flowblade provides a set of scripts that make it easier to create translations without using "gettext" directly.

Steps Overview

  1. Use git to pull repository version of Flowblade
  2. Use the provided scripts to create a translation template for your language
  3. Edit the created template to create the translation and compile .mo file from it to see your work
  4. Send the created .po file to project lead

1. Use git to pull repository version of Flowblade

To create a translation you should probably first install the repository version of Flowblade using git so that you can edit and compile the translation file flowblade.po, see Install Instructions.

2. Use the provided scripts to create a translation template for your language

  • Open Flowblade and select Help -> Runtime Environment from menu to see the two letter locale code for your OS install. For example fr for French, fi for Finnish etc. Information is under the header General.
  • Open terminal in folder .../flowblade-trunk/Flowblade/locale that can be found in the folder you installed repository version of Flowblade in.
  • To create a new translation give a command in the terminal:
./add_language LANGUAGE_CODE

in which LANGUAGE_CODE is the two letter language code for your locale.

3. Edit the created template to create the translation and compile .mo file from it to see your work

  • A folder named with the LANGUAGE_CODE for your language can be found in the /locale folder
  • Inside that folder is a /LC_MESSAGES folder in which there is a file called flowblade.po. This is the file used to create the translation.
  • You can use program Poedit (or Poedit2) to edit the flowblade.po file. These applications often compile the translation on save too, and if not, use the compile command below.
  • or you can open the file flowblade.po in a text editor. Translations are given by writing the the translations inside quotes on lines staring with text msgstr. To translate the menu item Open... you would need to fill the msgstr in example below:
#: useraction.py:489
msgid "Open.."
msgstr ""
  • To see the translations in the application, you need to compile them into a machine readable .mo file. Go to /locale folder and give command:
./compile_language LANGUAGE_CODE
  • Launch by running script ../flowblade-trunk/flowblade that was created when you downloaded the repository version. (You may need to set it executable first)

4. Contributing a translation

Send the created flowblade.po file to janne.liljeblad@gmail.com or submit a Github pull request. Please mention words Flowblade, translation and the LANGUAGE_CODE in the subject line. Translation will be in the next release.

Updating translation

If a translation already exists and you want to update it:

  • Go to the /locale folder and give command:
./update_language LANGUAGE_CODE
  • Translate application as described above.