14 thoughts on “Tools of the translation trade”

1. No Rosetta or gnome-translate?

2. I have not used Rosetta. However, I did do a cursory look-see into gnome-translate. Since I have not used it ever in my workflow, I felt it would be a bad idea to try and comment on it. The tools mentioned are the ones I have used or, use daily.

   The last time I used gnome-translate I recall having a bit of problems putting in the team information for the language I work on (bn_IN). But that was trivial and, I am sure that I could give it a try sometime soon.

   Thanks for dropping by Corey.

3. Thanks for the update. I know Pootle grabbed a lot of marketshare due to it being Free while Rosetta was not. Even now I don’t think it is that easy to just install Rosetta and not the whole LP stack.

4. @corey: You probably mean gtranslator. gnome-translate is a frontend to various machine translation services, while gtranslator is a PO editor.

   I also share the same kind of KBabel legacy. Its the only tool that was worth using for a very long time.

   I now code on Virtaal and I’m pretty excited about what it does. Uncluttered is what I’d call it, sparse sounds like it doesn’t have any features 🙂

   I’m not sure what everyone loves about translation panes that are mostly whitespace; set too large because you might get a large unit and always too small when a large unit actually arrives!

   And I’m also baffled by what is to love about dockable TM and glossary windows that spend most of their life empty (wasting space) or hopelessly to small when you get any hits (you made them small as they took up too much screen space no they’re too small to use).

   Click click off you go with your mouse to resize things which must count as the best way to slow down translation.

   One of the developers claims that he’s translating measurably faster now that he uses Virtaal almost exclusively for translation. Hey so I love Virtaal, so trust that last statement only after you’ve tried it yourself!

5. Oh ! I am giving Virtaal a workout. Lokalize isn’t making the cut when it comes to my daily stuff. Which doesn’t leave me with too many choices on the desktop. I guess coming from the multi-pane UI of KBabel and Lokalize it just takes some time getting used to Virtaal.

   The upside to using Virtaal has been the snappiness and, the crisp response of the application. That is just too good to ignore.

   And, thanks for correcting the gnome-translator/gtranslate bits. Mea culpa ! I should have checked up myself before responding to Corey.

6. You should check out Transifex (www.transifex.org and http://www.transifex.net), being used by Fedora, Xfce and others for their translations. 🙂

   Cheers,

   Og

7. You should really give Virtaal another try, I’ve long been a KBabebl user then switched to Virtaal and never looked back. I’ve never been as productive before, really Virtaal 0.4 is incomparable, heck I now translate more than 3000 words a day 🙂

8. The last time I checked Transifex does “translation content management” and, Lotte was proposed as the web-based translation tool. Did I miss something ?

9. I recently played a bit with the Facebook Translations app. It has some nice features that might serve as inspiration for Pootle or Rosetta. (I especially miss the ability to search for a known-wrong translation in Rosetta. I’m assuming they haven’t added that feature since I last checked.)

10. You have also missed Poedit, which, like Virtaal, is a cross-platform editor.

11. I clarified at the very beginning – these are the tools that I have used in the past or, use regularly now. I have not used Poedit. In fact, I was never aware of Poedit before you pointed it out. I’ll give it a try.

    For me because of the way I do translations, web-based tools seem to be a perfect fit. I need a rudimentary desktop application, for which Virtaal seems to be a fit, in case I intend to do off-line work.

12. Ahh ! Now that would be a good thing to have. Thanks for pointing out the Facebook Translations Application. Although when it comes to Facebook, they should make it a bit more intuitive to suggest alternative translations for already present languages.

13. I am using Virtaal a bit more now. However, I find web-based tools more conducive to the way I work. And, I agree, Virtaal has some immediate upsides.

    Thanks for dropping by and, taking time to comment.

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