Translating Butaca

Translating Butaca into your language

The easiest way to translate Butaca is by using Transifex. The process should be straight-forward:

• You will need a transifex account in order to collaborate: create one at https://www.transifex.net/plans/signup/free/.
• After that, you need to request the creation of a translation team by going to https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/butaca/teams/ and clicking on "Request a new team"
  • Alternatively, if a translation team for your language is already there, you can request to join the team
• You will see that there are two "resources". One of them contains all the translatable strings used in the application, and the other one contains the strings used in the description in the Nokia Store.
• After clicking on the resource, you will be able to start translating it by clicking on the "Translate now" button.

All strings should have the original source, in English, and a comment explaining in which content they are used (also warning you if there's a limited room for the string). Anway, if you are unsure about how to translate a string and the comment doesn't help, file a bug in our bug tracker, ensuring you use the l10n label on it.

Testing your translations

If you want to test the translations you've provided, feel free to contact me and request me a deb package. Or, if you prefer, you can do it yourself, as explained in the next section.

Testing your translations. The DIY way

If you want to test the translations you've provided:

• Download the translation clicking on "Download for use"
• If it already exists, and you're modifying it, simply replace the file butaca.CODE.ts (where CODE represents your language) with the one you just downloaded from Transifex.
• If it didn't exist, you'll have to copy it following the same name convention, and then instruct qmake to load it, by:
  • Open src.pro, go to the TRANSLATIONS section, and add your language
  • Run lrelease on it to get the butaca.CODE.qm file
  • Open res.qrc and add butaca.CODE.qm (it will be updated by qmake)
• To manually test it on a device, build a package (as instructed in HACKING), and run Butaca with $LANG=CODE /path/to/butaca
• To test it under Qt Creator, go to the Projects tab, and in the run configuration (either Harmattan or Qt Simulator targets), go to the System Environment section, and set the LANG environment variable to your language.

Example: Testing an Italian translation

Download the translated butaca.ts resource. The suggested name is for_use_butaca_butacats_it.ts, and move that file into src/l10n/butaca.it.ts, in the directory where you downloaded Butaca. Run

$lrelease src/l10n/butaca.it.ts -qm src/l10n/butaca.it.qm

Add butaca.it.ts to src.pro. The patch would look like:

  <file>l10n/butaca.pt.qm</file>
+ <file>l10n/butaca.it.qm</file>
  <file>qml/MovieView.qml</file>

Add butaca.it.qm to res.qrc. The patch for would look like:

-    l10n/butaca.pt.ts
+    l10n/butaca.pt.ts \
+    l10n/butaca.it.ts

If you created the package manually, copy it to the device and install it, and then launch Butaca from the command line:

$LANG=it /path/to/butaca

If you are using Qt Creator, set the LANG environment to it before running the app.