Requirements for the next GNOME Translation Tool (GTT)

• Kbabel style panes

  • Why is this a requirement? I like the poEdit layout better, it's much simpler. - ReinoutVanSchouwen

• The application should be able to download a file from svn

  • Is this really high priority? l10n.gnome.org now displays PO files at most five minutes old, and they are even synced with the latest POT file for the module? DaniloSegan

    • Then, it should be able to download a file from DL? to download a file from a website is quite easy - JorgeGonzalez

• The application should have a glossary divided into categories

  • What kind of categories? - ReinoutVanSchouwen

    • User definable categories - JorgeGonzalez

      • But how is it used? Could you elaborate? - PedroDeMedeiros

• The application should have a dictionary

  • Why not reuse gnome-dictionary? - ReinoutVanSchouwen

    • That it should have a dictionary doesn't exclude gnome-dictionary - JorgeGonzalez

      • But should it be embedded in the application? - PedroDeMedeiros

• The application should use translation memories
  • Import translation memories from KBabel
  • Import translation memories from poEdit
  • Export translation memories
    • (also in TMX format?)

      • But poEdit and KBabel translation memory databases are very different structures. Should we reimplement each engine? - PedroDeMedeiros

• The application should be able to suggest strings
• The application should show a visual diff (meld like)

  • But comparing what exactly? - PedroDeMedeiros

• The application should render a po into XML when a manual is being translated

  • This is what we have po2xml for, isn't it? - ReinoutVanSchouwen

    • Yes, gnome-doc-utils/xml2po handles this. DaniloSegan

      • But xml2po is manual, and uses the console, and new translators are not used to it. Besides it doesn't work well with some manuals (for example, evolution) - JorgeGonzalez

        • itstool should now be used, xml2po has been deprecated. - AlexandreFranke

• The application should have keyboard shortcuts for:
  • Previous/Next fuzzy
  • Previous/Next untranslated
  • Check accelerators
  • Check syntaxis
  • Check arguments
  • Copy msgid to msgstr
  • Toggle fuzzy status
• Output POs should use the same spacing and line-break conventions as gettext's commandline tools (e.g. msgmerge). This will make reading diffs of the files easier in general.

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