[GNC-dev] Appstream - mention of translations

[Geert Janssens]

Sigh...

Right after sending this message I found
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#spec-component-filespec
Which better explains the translation tag.
There's no need for us to specify which languages gnucash is translated in. I 
just have to set the translation domain and we're done.

So kindly ignore my previous question.

Regards,

Geert

Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 11:52:02 CEST schreef Geert Janssens:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working on improving the gnucash flatpak on flathub [1]
> recently. As flathub's app delivery model heavily depends on appstream
> files, my attention inevitably got drawn to the gnucash appstream file.
> 
> It's in a reasonably good shape and I have amended it here and there to fit
> better in the current appstream requirements.
> 
> One bit I haven't added yet is a "translations" tag. This tag is meant to
> indicate in which languages an app is translated. As a developer I'm having
> a bit of trouble quantifying this correctly.
> Depending on the language the translation status varies from 2%
> (Azerbaijani) to almost complete translations (Portguese, Croatian,
> Spanish, Ukrainian, German,...).
> 
> So we have some Azerbaijani translations but I doubt it a user would
> consider gnucash translated in Azerbaijani if it only covers 1% of the
> messages. So from what point we can claim the application is translated in
> a certain language? More than 50%, 75%, 90% ?
> 
> Just to give some indications:
> We currently have translations in 56 languages.
> If we require 80% of the messages to be translated to claim the application
> is translated in that language, gnucash would be considered translated in
> 29 languages. That in itself is actually quite impressive !
> If we lower the barrier to 50%, we can claim the app to be translated 47
> languages.
> 
> I'll note the translation project colors everything more than 50% translated
> in different shades of green (with near 50% being a very yellowish green).
> Under 50% the color slowly changes from yellow over orange to red. So they
> seem to suggest 50%+ is good.
> 
> 
> Geert
> 
> [1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnucash.GnuCash
> 
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