[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 014 snapshot 20071122

[Fábio Mierlo]

So, why not release a dvd, after the release of 014, with lot of packages?

On Nov 22, 2007 10:34 PM,  <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/07, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > And here's another snapshot. Sorry about the long delay on this one;
> > > it was caused by some nasty bugs and our general unavailability in the
> > > last few weeks. Still, the feedback we had during this period was very
> > > good and I feel we are converging towards the release.
> >
> > Well done. Just a question: why not to include the I18n_it also? It's
> > just a curiosity, nothing more, nothing less.
> > I know there are not so many italians here (in fact two afaik), but it
> > would be really appreciated, I think. Just my two pence, of course.
>
> The KDE language packs included are for the languages for which we
> have translations in the live CD environment (the initial live CD
> screens and the Installer), currently Brazilian Portuguese, German and
> Hungarian.
>
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/tools/LiveCD/Data/Language/?root=goboscripts
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/tools/Installer/Shared/Installer/Language/?root=goboscripts
>
> Contributions are always welcome. However, the KDE translation files
> are taking considerable space in the Live CD (the German pack is
> ~21MB)... we did set a precedent when we included KDE-I18N-pt_BR in
> 010 (which was released in a Brazilian magazine), but to keep on
> adding them would fill up the Live CD.
>
> One thought I have in mind is to master instead different versions of
> the Live CD for those supported languages. We could then add some
> extra goodies like the localized versions of OpenOffice, Firefox and
> spellchecker dictionaries. But this is extra work and we're already
> short on resources. Whether we could pull it off for 014 or not
> probably depends on the availability of volunteers to pack and test
> these language-specific packages. But it's something to think about,
> so I thought I'd share the idea.
>
> -- Hisham
>
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