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Hello,
What about adding Greek language to an ever increasing in popularity distro?
I'm from Greece, contact me at kounelii at yahoo dot com.
Let's collaborate to complete this project

Welcome, kounelii

You and collaborators can read the documentation on Menu > Help > HOWTO internationalization, or online. Momanager is the tool for translating Puppy Linux, it's built in in the latest versions. It is recommended to use the most updated official build, which is now Puppy Precise 5.5 beta, but if you prefer to use a stable release, there is Precise 5.4.3 or RetroPrecise 5.4.3 (for older hardware). To use Momanager you must have the devx installed (the devx is an SFS file that adds development tools to Puppy, the links above include both the ISO and devx files). POedit ↓ is a cool program to edit the .po files created by Momanager in an easier way, because it organises the lines to translate. Language packs created by Momanager can translate Puppy Linux version 5.3 and later (except Slacko 5.3.1).

Some programs have existing translations (Abiword, Geany, Gparted, Gnumeric, Osmo, Homebank, Gnome MPlayer, etc.) that you can search over the web and add to the language pack, you can even edit the old .mo files with Momanager. Other programs and interfaces must be translated from the beginning.

If you need some help, you can always ask in this forum section.

In my first attemt to translate puppy, i went ahead and translated all i could find easy to do!
one of them (which i also thought to be a good idea) was initrd
that is holding system messages at boot

inexperienced and clumsy as i am, i had ommited this symbol ---> " once in the text...
one of this was enough to make my system unbootable and set me back about an hour to figure it out.

So for you people that try to edit ANY file,
be king and pay attention to EVERY detail in your modifications...

apparently puppy search for strings like " or ' or \ or / ....

messing with them WILL cause you trouble (as i found out)

Thanks for BK for prompt reply to give me a general direction as to what to look for...

keep in mind, this is a work in progress...

on Barry's blog shinobar wrote:@new translators.
The lang_pack_all-0.9.sfs has a collection of translations.
I guess you can use it for the start.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51702

There are some .mo files for el

my console wrote:# pwd
/mnt/+mnt+home+lang_support_all-1.5.sfs/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES
#
# ls -l
insgesamt 1467
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10219 Jun 20 2010 asunder.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102742 Mai 3 2008 geany.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78391 Apr 23 2010 gftp.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60441 Apr 23 2010 glib20.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6148 Apr 23 2010 gnome-menus.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26735 Jul 8 2010 gnome-mplayer.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261974 Feb 6 2009 gnumeric-functions.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332671 Feb 6 2009 gnumeric.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13455 Apr 9 2010 goffice-0.8.1.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38351 Apr 23 2010 gparted.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101427 Apr 23 2010 gtk20.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225952 Apr 23 2010 gtk20-properties.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35694 Apr 23 2010 inkscape.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5136 Apr 23 2010 libgnomeprint-2.2.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13353 Apr 23 2010 libgnomeprintui-2.2.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39041 Aug 29 2009 osmo.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 144953 Apr 2 2010 sylpheed.mo
#

Note,
1467 kB upload here is not possible.

Thanks you L18L and vicmz, now running on 5.4.92 beta... hmmm better icons???
That's all i see for the moment!

kounelii wrote:... Comments?

Looking into your pet I have checked osmo and updated my de.

osmo is 79% translated to el.
https://osmo-pim.svn.sourceforge.net/sv ... k/po/el.po

..more to follow

@kounelii
Welcome ; -)

what does your message on the wiki mean

Μήπως συνεχιστεί η π

Hello Kouneli,

what is the progress of the Greek translation? do you need any help? if yes, i can translate.

i f love puppy

If anyone wants a right click utility package so the right clicks appear in
Greek when using one of Barry kauler's puppies, this can be done with my pet package

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 665#814665

Instructions:

1) download pinstall.sh.gz and remove fake gz extension, and
drag it into an executable path

2) install devx package and poedit-1.4.2

3) launch momanager (from utilities menu) and find the pinstall.sh script
and click 'create' button.

4) With poeditor you can fill in the translations of menu items

5) send me mo file


It would look something like this (the Czech version)