Updates
Posted by Sayamindu 10 months, 1 week ago
- A global dictionary for Sugar:: While working on the bookreader capabilities of the XO, I remembered how on almost each and every birthday during my primary school years, someone would give me one of those “pocket” dictionaries. Even in college, I would see students coming from Bengali medium schools studying their engineering textbooks with a dictionary by their side. Thinking that it would be useful to have such a dictionary built into the Read Activity, I started coding, and after sometime, I had a utility which worked for not only Read, but for any random Sugar Activity. Just select some text, hit a shortcut key, and you get a model dialog with the definition of the highlighted word(s) (we are considering whether instead of only a shortcut, this should be triggerable via a persistent icon on the frame). Here is a video of the (prototype) feature in action.
- L10n infra migration::Over the past few weeks, we migrated our Pootle based translation system to a new server. The transition seems to have succeeded without major hiccups, and I also managed to sneak in a feature which would show the status of a PO file (results of msgfmt –check, as well whether the file has been committed to the VCS or not) in the statistics view.
fab, I’ve been manually fixing a \n issue for Moon every time I do a release for ages now
I have to say that I just adore the dictionary stuff. If only someone made it available on GNOME too.
The new feature of Pootle revealing status of po helped me a lot to nail down etoys.po problem. Thanks!
Looking at the language packs: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/langpacks_v2
it seems they are outdated. Last modified date is 11th of May and some of our updates are not in the packs. Is there anything changed that I don’t know?