Thank you very much guys who helped out with testing and reporting bugs! Who wants to be marked in About box just ping me via e-mail, even the smallest efforts are worth mentioning

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Since I couldn’t get screencast applet working properly, here goes a bunch of screenshots and some notes. The main screen mimics Transfex‘s dashboard view. The user can see her locks there, browse projects etc. Left-top button shows user’s first and last name plus e-mail address. Verify that those are correct before pushing any files back to server. PO-file metadata is updated based on this information. In current release editing local PO-files is also enabled, just tap on “Open local file” in the menu.

Browsing projects is rather straightforward, to search tap on “Search” in the menu.

Each component in a project contains files, or translations to be more abstract. File list view shows progress for each file.

Each file contains a set of strings. In the left-bottom corner there are some buttons for filtering. A string can have three statuses – green means translated string, red means not translated and blue is used mark fuzzy strings, this means that the string is basically translated but might need to be checked one more time.

String editor view provides all the things you need to translate one string. With the buttons on the bottom user can navigate through strings in the current stringset, revert back to the original one, copy source string, use Google Translate to automatically translate the string and finally set the string status either to translated, fuzzy or untranslated.

That’s it folks!

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Transifex-mobile first public release is available for download! Enable maemo extras-devel repository on your N900 and install package transifex-mobile. Icon should pop up in the menu afterwards. Current version supports logging in to Transifex.net, pulling PO-files, editing them and pushing them back to server.

I am very much interested in your feedback, dear translator! The package installs files under /opt/transifex-mobile and if for some reason the app doesn’t want to start, fire up terminal and run /opt/transifex-mobile/main.py.

You can track my GSoC 2010 project status on a wiki page with more detailed information here. Screencast will follow up in a day or so. Stay tuned!

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Now the first day of Akademy 2010 conference is slowly coming to an end. There has been dozens interesting and useful lectures. Several Free Software projects are represented – KDE, Maemo, MeeGo, Qt and so on. Salmon for lunch was great, altough it could have been free!

Flickr photo stream has great pictures of the event. In the evening there is going to be a party – hopefully with free beer!

UPDATE:

On monday I took a test and I passed it – I am now Nokia Certified Qt Developer. All the conference attendees could have it for free.

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For example if you’re shipping random data files with your application and accessing those files by reading them as regular files, you have to mark the package as not zip-safe. There are some options to read those files from the zip file altough I am not sure if this is possible with Qt4, more specifically QIcon. There is more discussion about packaging your Python application and reading packaged files here.

Getting icons, modules and other files properly included took some time. For arbitrary files I used “data_files” parameter. For Python modules inside a directory “packages”. For modules in single file form “py_modules”. To automagically generate /usr/bin/transifex-mobile I used “console_script” inside “entry_point”. The resulting setup.py is accessible here, hopefully this saves some time who’s doing exactly the same thing.

So the application pretty much handles PO files, you can open them, edit strings, filter, search them and save the file. On N900 I am having some issues with QFileDialog, it seems to be extremely slow and sluggish. You can try out the application on your PC by:

git clone git://gitorious.org/transifex-mobile/transifex-mobile.git
cd transifex-mobile
python main.py


Setuptools should handle installation from source like this:

sudo python setup.py install

Afterwards you should be able to start application easily, since init script is added to /usr/bin:

transifex-mobile


I added some custom commands to setup.py, for example cleaning script to remove temporary files from the source tree:

python setup.py clean


I also made an attempt to add support for Debian package generation. Unfortunately the file/directory paths are messed up in the resulting Debian package:

python setup.py dch # Rotate changelog
python setup.py dpkg_buildpackage # Generate *.deb


I would be thankful to anyone who could help out with testing. Any comments about the path mess in Debian package are also welcome.

Git tip: I had some commits in my Git repository with incorrect e-mail address. I found cure for this here:

git filter-branch -f --env-filter "export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Lauri Võsandi'; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='lauri.vosandi@gmail.com'" HEAD

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Fair enough – I am convinced that I need to switch from PyQt4 to PySide. Appearently there is currently a big mess with Qt packages. The Qt4 C++ libraries are based on 4.5.x branch but PySide packages depend on 4.6.x. I ended up reflashing my N900 and installing Qt 4.6 packages from fremantle SDK repository by following instructions here.

Afterwards I installed PySide from here.

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Now getting to my second point – I need Your input, suggestions and ideas to make Transifex client for Maemo a killer-app for N900. You are very much welcome to comment this blog post or drop me an e-mail with your thoughts.

You can start watching my repository here

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The application should fetch bunch of strings from Transifex, user could be able to work on them using nice user interface and preferably also while she’s commuting in a train while being offline. Once connected to a wireless access point, it could push the strings back to Transifex. This application should present similar navigation logic as found in Transifex, which allows browsing projects, components, files etc and allow searching in them. I have already managed to scratch the surface of all the work that has to be done, here’s some eyecandy for you:

For those who don’t know yet, Transifex is a web based localization software, available in SaaS form at http://www.transifex.net. Currently it can hook up to your FOSS project’s VCS and pull *.PO files. Translators can access strings in what they call Lotte (Lightweight Online Translaton Editor). While submitting strings, they are pushed back to VCS. Right now they’re working on next major version of Transifex, which will bring even more cool features.

Link to my proposal

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