Rosetta for KDE and Kubuntu Dapper

A note to the KDE translation teams:

Ubuntu's web based translation tool Rosetta is now complete for Ubuntu and Kubuntu Dapper.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-May/000082.html

This is the first release which has KDE imported into Rosetta so KDE translation teams now have the option of using Rosetta for their KDE translations.

As a web based application Rosetta offers an easier way to translate Free Software without having to learn about Subversion and .po files.

The KDE translation domains in Rosetta are those in Ubuntu's main archive, which is most of KDE 3.5.2.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+translations

To use Rosetta you need to join the Launchpad translation team for your language. There are already translation teams for many languages actively translating Ubuntua and now Kubuntu using Rosetta, even if nobody in your translation team wants to use Rosetta it is probably a good idea to peridically check if there are KDE translations that you can take from it to put into KDE's SVN. Anyone can export from Rosetta.

A couple of notes. If you already know all about Subversion and .po files you probably won't be wanting to use a web based interface, but keep in mind that new translators to your team may find it easer.

I believe that there is also a web based translation tool planned for l10n.kde.org, you may wish to wait for that, but the advice about checking Rosetta for translations by Ubuntu translation teams still applies.

Let me know if you have any questions.