nate-parrott/Flashlight

Flashlight is not localized

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#110 opened on Nov 25, 2014

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Description

A couple people have expressed interest in translating the Flashlight app and some plugins to their native language (in fact, @xremix has already done German!).

I've written up a document describing how to localize the app and the plugins. If anyone wants to translate anything into their native language, pull requests would be much appreciated!

(there is one small missing technical piece: the web service does not serve localized plugin lists for browsing. I'll fix this as soon as I have time.)

Contributor guide

Tech stack
python
Domain
localizationdocumentation
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
under 1 hour
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
proficiency in a language other than Englishbasic GitHub and pull request workflowfamiliarity with localization file formats
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
75
Research direction
Refer to the localization guide at https://github.com/nate parrott/Flashlight/blob/master/Docs/Internationalization.markdown. For each language, create a new translation file (e.g., `de.lproj/Localizable.strings` for German) and submit a pull request. Note that the web service for browsing localized plugin lists is not yet implemented, but that does not block submitting translations for the app and plugins.