How to translate Kdenlive

This page lists the current translations in Kdenlive. The progress bar show the completion process for each language. Last status update was done on: date.

• Català (Catalan/ca) - by herrej01@gmail.com
  
   
• Čeština (Czech/cs) - by repli2dev@gmail.com
  
   
• Dansk (Danish/da) - by mads@dydensborg.dk
  
   
• Galician (Galician/gl) - by Javier Pico
  
   
• Deutsch (German/de) - by g.marco@freenet.de, f.hammer@gmx.de, and holzi1@gmx.at
  
   
• Greek (Greek/el) - by Konstantinos Poulios
  
   
• Castellano (Spanish/es) - by herrej01@gmail.com
  
   
• Finnish (Finnish/fi) - by Antti Sokero
  
   
• Français (French/fr) - by JB and jm@poure.com
  
   
• Hebrew (Hebrew/he) - by amir_in@netvision.net.il
  
   
• Croatian (Croatian/hr)
  
   
• Magyar (Hungarian/hu)- by KAMI (kami911 [at] gmail)
  
   
• Italiano (Italian/it)- by opensourcecat@gmail.com
  
   
• Nederlands (Dutch/nl) - by Michiel, see mailing list archive
  
   
• Polish (Polish/pl)- by Mariusz Pluciński
  
   
• Português (Portuguese/pt)- by José JORGE
  
   
• Português do Brasil (Portuguese from Brazil/pt_BR)- by soares.souza@gmail.com
  
   
• Russian (Russian/ru) - by Radist
  
   
• Slovenian (Slovenian/sl) - by milrs@filmsi.net
  
   
• Swedish (Swedish/sv) - by BR_Rask (in progress)
  
   
• Chinese? (Chinese/zh/zh_TW?) - by eric629@gmail.com
  
   
• Turkish (Turkish/tr) - by Anıl Özbek
  
   
• Ukranian (Ukranian/uk) - by Yuri Chornoivan
  
   

If you would like to help or add a new translation, please log in and add an entry here so that the translation work can be coordinated.

Translation tools
It is recommended to use a specific translation tool rather than edit in a text editor. Translation tools offer better support for search, translation memory and spelling checking. Feel free to use:

• lokalize (part of kde-sdk package) under KDE4
• kbabel is a KDE3 translation program
• gtranslator for Gnome

Note, that there often exist localized tutorials on how to use the above listed programs. Try searching in your own language for a guide/tutorial on how to use them.

Making a new translation

Here is an example of creating a new translation for the French language, which has the iso name "fr".

1. Checkout kdenlive from SVN:
   svn co https://kdenlive.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kdenlive/trunk/kdenlive
2. Change directory to the "po" folder:cd po
kdenlive.pot file is the original English text. It does contain the translation.
3. kdenlive.po file is the translation. For technical reasons, each kdenlive.po file needs to be placed in a subdirectory, in this case fr/kdenlive.po. So create a subdirectory with the iso name of the language: mkdir fr
4. Copy and rename kdenlive.pot to the new directory: cp kdenlive.pot fr/kdenlive.po
5. Translate the newly created po file using a po Editor.
6. If you want to test the newly created po file, you need to set up the build system to include it. Copy a CMakeList.txt file from another po directory and change it:
cp da/CMakeList.txt fr/CMakeList.txt
kwrite fr/CMakeList.txt
   Change the da to fr.
   Then, add the name (fr) of your newly created directory to the file po/CMakeList.txt in order:
kwrite CMakeList.txt
   Finally you have to run CMake as you would normally, and install Kdenlive to test your new translation.
7. Present your work on Kdenlive mailing list and send us the po file for integration.

We do appreciate it, if translators are willing to become registered as SVN writers, so they can update translations themselves.

Reviewing a translation

1. Get in contact with the translator or with Kdenlive mailing list.
2. Checkout Kdenlive from SVN.
3. Correct the translation and send a patch to the translator. Example: svn diff > mydiff.patch

Update a po file (translation) with a pot file (English source text)
Use Gettext tools and run the following command:
msgmerge -U fr/kdenlive.po kdenlive.pot
(where fr is the isoname of the language/translation you want to update). Then, use a tool to edit fr/kdenlive.po.