[Libreoffice] [libreoffice-l10n] Re: LibreOffice WikiHelp

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Martin,

On 2010-12-14 at 12:27 +0100, Martin Srebotnjak wrote:

> > > I think the biggest issue is the offline editing; and I think here we
> > > can use the Wiki Publisher
> > > (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher)  to
> > > edit the pages in LibreOffice.
[...]
> I believe that is not a good idea. It will reformat the content and make
> changes tracking a nightmare. Also, translating from changed US wiki to
> other languages will be a nightmare.

Let's see - as I said, so far I haven't done any testing, to see how
good it is; I can imagine it works just well, and of course, even the
opposite scenario :-)

> I propose you develop a system to have English help editable on wiki but
> fully transportable back to the po/xliff system (interchangeable).
> All the translations would start from the English po/xliff help files and
> decide whether to
> a) strictly translate English help (like we Slovenians decided) and keep
> working with po/xliff files; the online help would be updated from these
> files at least with every minor and major release;
> or
> b) develop their own help in the wiki and never go back again;

Yes, this seems so far working for most :-)  I'll make sure that all the
work you've done on the the help translation so far is not lost.

> Before I go on I need an answer to a question. I tried the help in RC1 and
> it seems that help items do not get passed to wiki i.e. the default module
> help page opens even if you press F1 in a certain dialog (the previous
> bundled help showed that definite topic in the help).

This is a blocker bug, already reported as:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32338

It works in some of the scenarios (eg. in the menus), but not in the
dialogs.  I am working on it, this is of course not intended.

Regards,
Kendy