The common consensus seems to be to start localization work with the desktop,
as that is part of the operating system that is most useful to the user. Thus,
we have chosen to translate, in order, (a) a minimal set of application
software in GNOME and KDE, (b) GNU system tools, including gcc,
fileutils (covering the basic commands like cp, mv, etc.),
(c) OpenOffice, the open-source office suite. Of these, all except OpenOffice
use the standard gettext set of utilities, and thus we will initially
focus on these. Also, we will start translating the development versions of
the desktops, so that we can be caught up with our work by the time of
release. This means targetting GNOME 2.8, and KDE HEAD versions. For example,
the scheduled release date for GNOME 2.8 is September 2004.
Gora Mohanty
2004-07-24
