Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...)

On 01/08/11 20:55, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> Þann mán  1.ágú 2011 15:38, skrifaði Mikel Pascual - Akaita:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I checked about a dozen languages, and almost everybody translates
> > "%PRODUCTNAME Writer" (for example) as "%PRODUCTNAME Writer".
> >
> > And I'm wondering... why is that so?
> > Is that a directive from the steering comittee?
> >
> > I guess that most people opens LibO via "right-click-->new...", double
> > clicking a doc/spreadsheet/... , or even using the LibreOffice link (I
> > mean,
> > the startscreen with link to the products, etc).
> > Anyway, the applications menu is left in english, and those (very little)
> > icons are not that well-know.
> >
> >
> > I think having those names translated should be a must. Keeping them in
> > english just puts up an entry-barrier for people who don't know english
> > (that's one of the reasons to have translations, isn't it?).
> > So, could we translate those names?
>
> I'd say that this is up to each translation team to decide, most have
> decided not to translate those application names.
>
> Maybe because if they do, they would have to decide upon good
> translations of those names, to coordinate their usage through several
> translation domaines (in LibreOffice, Launchpad, GNOME, KDE, etc), to
> keep up pace in translating helpcontent, manuals and bunch of other
> stuff for your users - so they can access information about these
> applications under their new (translated) name.
>
> So maybe it's mostly question about manpower... ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Sveinn í Felli

Why do we have this discussion at all? The product names are part of
the branding of the trademark and shouldn't be tampered with.

Mikel, I suspect you of being pretty new to this game...

– Olav

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