GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675601
GIMP 2.8 dropped translation coverage compared to 2.6
Last modified: 2012-09-10 10:00:26 UTC
When I run GIMP 2.8 with bulgarian locale, most of the menus show in english. The same strings show OK in bulgarian with previous versions. I have checked several of the strings in the source, and found that these strings exist in the .po file and are translated. The problem exist on Linux (Kubuntu 12.04) and Windows (XP).
I can confirm the same bug.
Created attachment 214064 [details] missing parts of Dutch translation in GIMP 2.8
The same bug with the Dutch translation! Very annoying for the readers of our Dutch GIMP tutorials!
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2012-May/msg00029.html etc
*** Bug 676089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Here is an example from the po/nl.po: #: ../app/actions/image-actions.c:57 #, fuzzy msgctxt "image-action" msgid "_Transform" msgstr "_Transformeren" It's the same in Bulgarian: #: ../app/actions/image-actions.c:57 #, fuzzy msgctxt "image-action" msgid "_Transform" msgstr "П_реобразуване" The "fuzzy" bit means that the translatable text changed in the original English version, but noone update the translation to match the change. Folks, Bulgarian translation was last updated in frigging 2007, and the Ducth one - in 2008! What did you expect? :) Please just start updating your translations.
Thank you Alexandre (also for your help on IRC)! The problem is clear! Not a bug in GIMP but outdated translations.
@Alexandre Prokoudine, as far as I know, GIMP is actively translated in Bulgarian on Launchpad.
> Not a bug in GIMP but outdated translations. That is not correct. See comment 4. @lokster: Launchpad has nothing to do with GNOME, but if the Launchpad team upstreamed their translations to the GNOME translation team for review and inclusion in GNOME that would be very welcome. See http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/bg/ for contact info.
Not sure what to do with this bug - I don't think that its mere existence will make the translation teams notice that there is a problem, right?
Created attachment 218320 [details] semitranslated gimp 2.8
The bug is present in Mageia 2 and cauldron, in Hungarian language too. Translation file has the right records, so this problem is not with the translation itself.
Actually, it IS the problem with the Hungarian translation. Please have a look yourself: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/po/hu.po?h=gimp-2-8 Unless Mageia 2 somehow has 3 days old translation updates from the 2.8 Git branch, you are dealing with translation that was last updated in 2008.
Closing, as this is a translation workflow issue, not a Gimp one.